From a bird’s eye view, it is a massive, winding structure composed of dotted depressions and meticulous planning. For those on land, it is a series of large, conal dunes and purposeless pits. For Greek artist Danae Stratou, industrial designer Alexandra Stratou, and architect Stella Constantinides (the D.A.ST. Arteam) it is an “exploration of infinity.” Desert Breath is a land art installation of striking proportion located near the Red Sea by El-Gouna, Egypt. Impossibly immense, it was dug into the Sahara as a nod to its purpose: an infinite spiral set within a seemingly endless natural wonder—the largest African desert. It was rooted in the team’s desire to work with a medium as mystical and unknown as the desert. “In our mind’s eye, the desert was a place where one experiences infinity. We were addressing the desert as a state of mind, a landscape of the mind. The point of departure was the conical form, the natural formation of the sand as a material.” Spanning nearly one million square feet (100,000 square meters), Desert Breath is a statement that demanded equally immense work. The piece saw the displacement of 280,000…
