Desert sculpture

Aluminum Yucca was made from salvaged hollow aluminum fuel tanks from F-16 military aircraft. The hollow forms were sliced vertically to resemble the scooped shape of the Datil Yucca leaf, which is native to the area. At night, the sculpture is illuminated by a slow-moving, solar-powered color wheel that recreates the hues of the Albuquerque desert landscape.

A 72m wall on Cottesloe Beach reflects the shore and the horizon. The curve of the wall creates an image of a desert island floating in an endless sea.

The Hand in the Desert giant sculpture of a hand in the middle of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

Negative space image created by metal boulders. Palm Desert, CA by Heath Satow

I produced this ceramic sculpture in reference to my love for the desert. When I was little I lived for one year in Phoenix Arizona, and four years in Houston Texas. The most memorable thing abo…

Artist Mohammad Ahmed Ibrahim has installed 320 pop-coloured sculptures in the Saudi desert for the inaugural Desert X Al Ula festival, scattering them among its rocky canyons. #installation #installations #art #artinstallation #desertx

Some artists say Desert X AlUla is a step toward changing Saudi society. Critics call the government-funded exhibition “morally corrupt.”

Located near the Red Sea in El Gouna, Egypt, Desert Breath is an impossibly immense land art installation dug into the sands of the Sahara desert by the D.A.ST. Arteam back in 1997. The artwork was a collaborative effort spanning two years between installation artist Danae Stratou, industrial designer Alexandra Stratou, and architect Stella Constantinides, and was meant as an exploration of infinity against the backdrop of the largest African desert. More

The mysterious Utah Monolith was discovered in a remote part of the desert and vanished soon after. We still don’t know who put it there or who removed it.