Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Sand Sculptures

Again I return to the idea of art that is created to be destroyed.

Sand castles are something that most of us (living so close to the coast) have some kind of experience with; but what about sand sculptures? I recall seeing some pretty intense sand sculptures at the annual VA beach music festival a few years back (they were having a contest) but I didn't take any pictures. This article has a handful of sand-sculpture photos taken in Norfolk, VA. This foreign web page has a magnificent collection of sand sculptures.

The level of dedication that these people put into building something so temporary is amazing to me.
Here are some of my favorite pictures:








1 comment:

  1. Wow! Those are fantastic. Sand crumbles so easily... I couldn't imagine how many times they had to do it to get it so perfectly. I would like to watch those in the rain. It seems that it would be part of the art.

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