Circe

2024

Circe is an artwork by artist Katie Paterson and architectural studio Zeller & Moye, featuring an arrangement of glass slices, transitioning in a gradient from clear to pale blue, aquamarine and green hues. The discs of pure cast glass are made with sand collected from all the deserts across the Earth: Al Khatim Desert, Albuquerque Basin, Alvord Desert, Antarctic Polar Desert, Arabian Desert, Aral Karakum, Arctic Polar Desert, Atacama Desert, Black Desert, Chalbi Desert, Chihuahuan Desert, Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Death Valley, Deliblato Sands, Gibson Desert, Gobi Desert, Great Basin Desert, Great Rann of Kutch, Great Salt Lake Desert, Great Sand Sea, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Guban Desert, Indus Valley Desert, Islands becoming desertified, Jalapão, Judaean Desert, Kalahari Desert, Karakum Desert, Katpana Desert, Kharan Desert, Kyzylkum Desert, La Guajira Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Locharbriggs Sandstone Formation, Lompoul Desert, Marine Desert: Baltic Sea Dead Zones, Mojave Desert, Monegros Desert, Navajo Sandstone, Ndioum, Nyiri Desert, Oceanic Desert Islands, Oltenian Sahara, Ordos Desert, Patagonian Desert, Pumice Desert, Red Desert, Sahara Desert, Sechura Desert, Simpson Desert, Sonoran Desert, Sprengisandur, Tennger Sand Sea, Thal Desert, Thar Desert, The Cyclades, The Empty Quarter, The Ka’ū Desert, The Namib, The Negev, The Richtersveld, The Sinai, The Syrian Desert, Uyuni Salt Flat, Viana Desert, Wadi Araba, Wadi Rum, White Desert, and White Sands.