PLANTS OF THE DESERT

PLANTS OF THE DESERT

The watercolors are part of  the artistic research work "The Water-, The Plants-, The Borders of the Desert, 1m² desert chosen from 9 million km²", by Gustav Deutsch, Hanna Schimek, 1995

The Sahara in a sandpit. Confronting forces of nature with forceps. Labeling and numbering tiny life forms. Methodical approach to a primeval landscape with the means of scientific drawers and criminalists. Crime Scene Botany. Study of the vegetation in the stone desert near the Figuig oasis. Categorization according to type, frequency and location with help of a square frame, signs, photographs, specimen and sixty watercolor sample cards.