Photo and Art: Andrés Amador
Much obliged to Paul for posting about this sand-painting artist on Facebook.
Andrés Amador, of San Francisco, creates lovely designs with a rake. He maintains that his work is “more about the process and less about the result.”
The website Viral Nova explains that Amador “uses a rope as a guide so that he can make the geometric patterns. … By raking up the wet sand at low tide, he is able to make contrasting sand colors.”
And he apparently takes orders — for marriage proposals (“Love Letters in the Sand”?) and even for corporate team-building exercises.
If I lived in San Francisco, I might ask Amador to create a message about something — maybe peace or kindness or helping the homeless. Some year, a sand painting could be my donation to the San Francisco-based Homeless Prenatal Program, an outstanding organization that Suzanne told me about.
Check out the collection of Amador’s other works is at Viral Nova, a site that bears watching.
Photo and Art: Andrés Amador
I caught my breath when I saw the inevitable happening to this painting. With sand art, it seems that “Ars longa, vita brevis” becomes “Memoria longa, ars brevis.”
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Lovely–like the large snow designs one sees (by the same guy? or someone else…) –But yeah, maybe even more lovely for being even more temporary. All that beauty just for an hour.
Reminds me of the artworks that Nature makes and that you often photograph — spider webs, ice crystals, seed pods and the like.