Intricately Based Land Art Washes Away With the Tide
by Samuel Medina
Andres Amador has only a few hours to work before the tide sets in. He must wait for a full moon when the waves have fully receded, giving him the space and time to execute his sand etchings. Using just a garden rake, Amador inscribes monumental doodles along the banks of beaches, giant compositions of overlapping lines and vaguely geometric figures which originate from tiny sketches he’s prepared in a notebook beforehand. The largest of his works span areas of 300 X 500 feet and larger, taking several hours and workers to complete; yet despite their size and the great effort dedicated to their realization, the tableaux won’t last through the day. As the shoreline becomes engulfed by the falling sea, they vanish just as fast as they had come…
(read more: Archetizer) (images: Cater News Agency)
John Piper - Seaton Delaval (1941)
John Constable - A Windmill Near Brighton (1824)
Image by an incredible paper artist, Mia Pearlman.
For some inspiration check out her Stuff page here miapearlman.com/stuff
(Source: littleream)
Dong! Every Thing I Touch To Dinosaurs
Author in training.
By Gregory Euclide, these ideas about world building and construction have been appealing to me lately, you don’t get much better than this. I’ve seen the idea of a painting pouring from the frame before, but never anything quite so elaborate! The area of the sculpture to the left where it is being built back up is stupendous, the stilts just make it.
He has some gripping images of the construction and development of the whole thing on his Flickr, too good not to see.
…I
wha…
…close to giving up art
Okay.
/throws out art supplies
Crashing porcelain martial arts figurines.
Images captured by German photographer Martin Klimas just as each of the fragile objects hit the ground after being dropped from a height of almost 10 feet.
