Sand Sculptors Celebrate Transient Art
August 29, 2013
Sculptures made of sand are transient, here today and gone tomorrow, subject to the whims of wind and waves. Yet each year, artists spend hours creating elaborate sand sculptures in a summertime competition.
It takes patience and skill to create a sand sculpture, and the annual competition here attracts sculptors and hobbyists who take the craft seriously, including Ko Tanaka, a professional architect.
“This is sand. Once in a while, it's not unusual that things collapse...spending so many hours and have it collapse. That happens,” says Tanaka.
This year, the competition highlights characters from books and is raising funds for the local library foundation.
Sandis Kondrats, whose sculpture is inspired by the novel Atlas Shrugged, is a professional artist who worked with granite and marble in his native Latvia.
“In sand, it's more open, it's more free. I can experiment. I can do it in two days. This is the second day for me. Compared with stone, granite, this would take almost a year,” says Kondrats.
For artists like Bruce Phillips, sand sculpting is a job.
“It's something you can just totally focus on and tune everything else out in the world. And I just quit my job and just did sand sculpture full time,” he said.
Like other professionals, Phillips is paid to display his art at promotional events around the world.
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