sand-breathing drawings in Dunes

I apply moulding paste on top of the paper. Random strokes. I blend opaque moulding paste with transparent one. Their textures are totally different, but they blend very evenly. I hold my paper firmly, standing up against the harsh wind on top of the dunes. Then I lie down on my belly, holding the paper a few inches in front of me. I take a deep breath and the sand tickles my belly. The wind is already moving some sand particles towards my paper, and they stick to the moulding paste. I breathe out towards the sand. Through my breath, sand particles move towards the paper, the wind helps me, and my white paper and moulding paste are slowly covered. I stand up before moving myself in the opposite direction. Now the wind is blowing behind me, my hair is flowing, and I am wishing my hair won't stick to the moulding paste. My eyes are full of sand. My belly gets bigger as I take the breath, I feel how my body pushes against the ground, the wind levitates my clothes. When I breathe out towards the paper, this time my breath is not drawing but slowly erasing the sand particles that are not stuck. Drawing and erasing through my breath, wind, sand, and moulding paste.  As I change how I apply the moulding paste, the drawing changes a lot. Without the transparent one, the sand cannot be held on the paper. The opaque one dries very easily in this windy weather, so the sand particles flow away quickly without sticking. When I draw a sinkhole with moulding paste, a large circle on the ground, the wind is stronger now and it is impossible to hold the paper firmly. It turns upside down, and a very big chunk of sand sticks to the paste as the paper falls to the ground. The paper is heavy now due to sand. Drawing through breathing has its own temporality. The drawing waits to emerge in the intervals between my breaths. Because I need to take a deep breath before I can push the sand over the moulding paste, the duration of inhalation becomes longer than it was at the beginning. During these pauses, the wind participates in the process, helping the sand gradually cover the paper.  Drawing through my breath and sand, and drawing by erasing through breathing out, produce an embodied, site-specific drawing made on 18.09.26 from 14:30 to 15:05.