Unsui (Mirror) by Sanford Biggers, Desert X 2025, Coachella Valley, California [Photography]

Art-Architecture / California / LA / Los Angeles / Nature/Outdoors / Photos-Photography

Unsui (Mirror) by Sanford Biggers, Desert X 2025, Coachella Valley, California 

The image features two large, cloud-shaped sculptures mounted on tall, slender metal poles. The sculptures are designed to resemble fluffy clouds, with a textured surface that mimics the appearance of clouds in the sky. They are positioned in a barren landscape with rocky terrain and distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky. The sky is a mix of blue and gray, with clouds scattered throughout, creating a dramatic backdrop. The sculptures stand out against the natural scenery, adding a whimsical element to the otherwise rugged environment. The overall composition highlights the contrast between the man-made structures and the natural landscape. Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B

Sanford Biggers is a multimedia artist whose practice encompasses painting, sculpture, video, photography, music, and performance. As an artistic intermediary, he disrupts established narratives, weaving U.S. history into broader global frameworks. By remixing cultural symbols and intervening in historical forms, he complicates collective mythologies and reimagines traditions. His work reflects personal experiences, from his early engagement with graffiti art in Los Angeles to his time living in Japan, shaping his ability to bridge disparate cultural and historical contexts.

Unsui (Mirror) features two towering sequin sculptures set against the expansive desert sky. Clouds, a recurring motif in Biggers’ work, symbolize freedom, boundlessness, and interconnection. Drawing on Biggers’ study of Buddhism, these clouds — or unsui (“clouds and water” in Japanese) — embody unencumbered movement. Shimmering in the desert light, they evoke a feeling of timelessness and transcendence.

Read more

The Desert Biennial produces desert X, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded in California, conceived to produce recurring international contemporary art exhibitions that activate desert locations through site-specific installations by acclaimed international artists. Its guiding purposes and principles include presenting public exhibitions of art that respond meaningfully to the conditions of desert locations, the environment and Indigenous communities; promoting cultural exchange and education programs that foster dialogue and understanding among cultures and communities about shared artistic, historical, and societal issues; and providing an accessible platform for artists from around the world to address ecological, cultural, spiritual, and other existential themes.

Read More

Related Items:

New Design: Vintage Pica variety of lemons (1908) Print and other products [Shopping] Desert Scene, Desert X 2025, Coachella Valley, California [Photography] What to Draw and How to Draw It (1913) via The Public Domain Review [Shared] Architectural Drawings Capture the Special Details of Cities via My Modern Met [Shared] WikiTok: A TikTok-style interface for exploring random Wikipedia articles [Shared]

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Back to Top