Dear community,

We are in the final weeks before starting the building of our artwork, Tracings of Impermanence in the Tankwa Karoo Desert of Southern Africa - and we are reaching out to our network asking for help to fill our fundraising gap to make this project become a reality!

Tracings of Impermanence is a land-based spatial installation for the Tankwa /Karoo desert ecology. The project is conceived as a cartographic sigil created from the earth it stands upon and is raised as a witness to the entanglement of species and forces across time. We propose this structure as an invitation to sense the desert as a living field of forces and lineages: wind, water, heat, dust; migration routes of birds and animals; the movements of pastoralist peoples suchas the San and Khoekhoe; the treaded path of the voortrekker, and of course anancient ocean that once covered this basin, leaving mineral memory in the playa.

The project is realised in the capacity of Earth Erotica, a spatial design practice working at the intersection of architecture, art, and landscape. Our practice investigates posthumanist architecture through spatial design.

We invite you to please consider donating (even small amounts matter!) to help us with realising this project.