FIELD NOTES / ESH / Northern Africa
Western Sahara
Windblown sand & Atlantic edges.
START WITH A PLACE
Dust storm off Western Sahara
NASA’s observations of the Western Saharan coast show airborne dust crossing the boundary between desert and ocean. This entry follows a moving landscape rather than assigning a national architectural style to a disputed territory.
Read the source NASA Earth ObservatoryA CLOSER LOOK
A study in mass and surface.
Trace the different edges of a dune, a dust plume and a shoreline. Which is sharp at one scale and diffuse at another?
An editorial observation prompt, grounded in the reference above.
WORKING COLOUR
A palette to begin with.
Five editorial tones for this surface family. Use them as a starting point for a study; they are not measured samples from the site.
Limestone paper#eee7d8oklch(0.929 0.021 85.945)
Warm sediment#c6ad86oklch(0.760 0.060 78.678)
Earth ochre#a36545oklch(0.568 0.092 47.550)
Weathered slate#657d79oklch(0.569 0.029 184.084)
Carbon ink#282b2boklch(0.286 0.004 196.917)