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DESERTS CLOUDS

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World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / DESERTS
Mojave Desert [ 360 photo & VR video preview 10 sec ]


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World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / DESERTS
Chihuahuan Desert [ preview: 5 min / LINK to 3 screen ]

This project is conceived as a series of walks exploring
natural-cultural-virtual environments in the four major deserts
of North America: Chihuahuan, Mojave, Sonoran and Great Basin.
Walks in the Chihuahuan Desert include: soaptree yucca plants
as testaments to natural survival in the desert ecosystem;
fields of petroglyphs dating back to the Ancestral Pueblo period
(c. 1300 to 1600 CE);and the location of the first Atomic Bomb
detonated in 1945 preceding Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"Deserts, which account for the largest percentage of the Earth's terrestrial
surface area and a majority of the western North American landscape, are
among the ecosystems predicted to be the most sensitive to global change."
Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants