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eL Seed Desert X AlUla · 2020
Mirage
A poem becomes a landscape. Walk around sweeping sand-colored forms,
step beneath their interwoven canopy, and look up through open letters
to the desert sky. Change the hour to follow shadows across the sand.
WASD / arrows to walk · drag to look Touch: move on the left ·
look on the right
An independent interpretation of eL Seed’s Mirage at Desert X AlUla.
Calligraphic forms and terrain are approximations, not an exact
transcription of the poem or a surveyed reconstruction. Artist’s photographs and context ↗
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Artist’s film ↗
A little orientation
WASD / arrows
Walk through the space
Shift
Walk faster
Drag
Look around. Double-click the scene to lock the pointer; Escape
releases it.
Touch
Drag the left half to move, the right half to look.
E
Cycle between the approach, beneath the canopy, and reverse view.
H / F
Help / fullscreen
Walk around the blue circles and the sculpture’s sandstone ledge. Use
the daylight slider or presets to change the sun. Arrow keys adjust
the slider when it is focused; click the scene to resume walking.
Times are an artistic lighting study, not a solar simulation.