Documented artwork / temporary paired cloud sculptures
Unsui (Mirror)
Credit as documented: Sanford Biggers
Sanford Biggers created Unsui (Mirror) for Desert X 2025 as a pair of tall, sequin-covered cloud forms. The surfaces changed with desert light and wind, connecting the sculpture's appearance to the weather around it. Desert X relates the cloud imagery to Biggers' study of Buddhism and to ideas of movement, freedom and connection. The commission was developed with Buckhorn Public Arts for the James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center in Palm Springs.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 2025
- Materials
- sequins; structural substrate not independently established
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- Dimensions
- Over 30 ft tall
- Dimensions apply to
- Organizer describes the cloud forms; no footprint or component engineering dimensions.
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
Desert X 2025; no longer on view
James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center, Palm Springs, California
- Site
- James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center
- Event
- Desert X 2025
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Materials and construction
The organizer describes forms exceeding thirty feet in height. Their placement engaged the history of Desert Highland's Black community and displacement from Section 14. Desert X now explicitly states that the 2025 exhibition is closed and this installation is no longer on view.
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Sources
- desertx.org ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17