Challenging assumptions about how to represent both the scientific and the aesthetic provides an opportunity to reject traditional notions that these two are in direct opposition. By producing a ‘nexus of science, memory, and strategy,’ these drawings create new readings of dust by overlapping knowledge from the natural sciences with the aesthetic, temporal, and perceptual qualities of dust. The coupling of analog and digital techniques aims to address the challenges associated with the dramatic scalar differences between the particle and the storm.

Drawing the dust is more than simply pointillism; adopting a filmic approach to build a visual narrative of the process of moving dust results in drawings that address the inherent and essential ephemerality of the storm through seriality.

In a highly-speculative intervention, the planting of psamophile fields (desert dune plants) on destabilized, dust prone lands encourages the settlement of aeolian dust by hindering the movement of wind and stabilizing the ground.Over time, the plants create a dust sink, accumulating so much material that dunes begin to form. Throughout the territory, ephemeral topographies are continually created and eroded by the wind over time and space.