Desert Breath

On the desert's edge near Hurghada, where the sand meets the Red Sea, lies Desert Breath: a vast land-art installation of interlocking spirals formed from cones and conical pits, spiralling out from a central pool. Created in 1997 by a trio of Greek artists, it covers roughly 100,000 square metres and is best appreciated from the air, where it reads like a giant crop circle etched into the dunes.

Once sharply geometric, the work is slowly dissolving as wind reshapes the sand, an intentional meditation on time and impermanence. On the ground you can still trace its arms among the cones, but this is really a place for the curious and the aerial-minded, a haunting piece of art left to the desert to reclaim.