Just Deserts

The desert has played across our imagination for millennia. It has been continually represented in media from paintings to film. It piqued my attention in college when I was able to visit the Southwestern US.
The video installation has narrative elements but is not a straight linear narrative. Parts of the video is pulled from my own library of videos that I’ve recorded over the last couple of decades throughout the world; parts were filmed specifically for the project. Finally, I sourced video from public archives. The parts will be woven together into a story of the desert, its allure, the dread that it can draw.
Obviously, much art found in Dubai deals with the desert, and this is for good reason: we are surrounded by it, the city arose from it. While this project aims to take a complex and layered approach to this environment, it is mostly told through my perspective from growing up in the United States.