The project uses the desert as a site and framework to reflect on landscape, environment, and time. Desert Dwelling explore the act of observation and documentation using common methods, such as photography, video, writing, and sound. It also employs more time-consuming (and old-fashioned) observation and documentation means, such as drawing, casting, older photographic techniques, and watercolor painting. The working method focuses on the fluid relationship between process, work, and documentation. 

The desert is the focal point for several reasons. Deserts are vulnerable places and extreme habitats that are both concrete and metaphorically related to environmental change. Such areas are usually regarded as hostile to humans and are thinly populated. Deserts represent a great contrast to postmodern urban communities, which are characterized by a flow of cultural signs. Whereas the city seems to be full of meaning, a desert landscape can be perceived as meaningless. At the same time, the desert has great symbolic meaning within a culture. This applies, for example, to the Bible and the desert wandering of Moses, and not least to an expansive cultural field comprising literature, film, art, and photography. The 2017 virtual film CARNE y ARENA (2017) (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible) allows the viewer to cross the border between Mexico and the United States through the Sonoran Desert. In recent years, several deserts in Mexico and throughout Africa have become dangerous routes for refugees seeking to go to the West.