Talking about it people usually say something like “Sand Art is a unique ART. An artist draws with sand on a glass surface of a special table, lighted from below. Video camera and projector transmit his motions on a screen. Unique masterpieces spring up by master’s hands, superseding each other on audience’s eyes”.
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I’d like it to be so. When you see it in the Internet, on video or, if you are really lucky, on a live performance I’d like you to meet exactly ART.
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Probably after you know what is SAND ART
you’d like to sink into this amazing world… Sink into sand.
By the way, it’s warm! Table’s glass surface where everything happens is warmed up by lamps lighting it, and the sand becomes warm as on the beach.
So welcome to the workshop.
Technically there is nothing special:
A table with a mat glass surface, lamps under the glass. Tables may have different proportions and height.
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My table’s surface is 1300x800. On the glass there is sand. Sand also can be different: quartz, silicate. Castillio uses volcanic.
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I have river sand. Nearby there is a support 2 meters high. Videocamera is on it. As a rule cameras are analog with wide focus lens. And a projector which transmits everything on a screen (for the sake of what are gathered). Nothing intricating.
And where is ART?
And damn, I’ll tell you nothing original.
Love!
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SAND ART is in a huge degree love to material you use. Why should you draw something with sand if you can draw it differently and much better? Just to say “Wow, I draw with sand!”?
I refused from many really good ideas and boons exactly because of it.
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Sand is almost like water. It’s time. It’s flowable. It takes different shapes, not always desired and expected. It is it’s nature and that’s why it charms.
You can’t force it. You can only love it, admit it as it is, help it show worth, expose its natural qualities and hope to mutuality… to relations…
And only then it itself starts talking to you about art.
That is SAND ART.
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