Beautiful Sand Sculptures
Art can be presented in many mediums. Based on the talent of the artist anything or any medium can be turned into beautiful art.
Andoni Bastarrika is that kind of a talented artist. He uses beach sand as his medium to deliver his art. He creates surreal sculptures of animals as he likes to connect with elements of the natural world. So below you can see his amazing work and how realistic they are. You can see how he gave life to beach sand.
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In 2010 Andoni went for a walk with his two daughters on a summer day. He sculpted a beautiful mermaid using sand with his daughters. It made him realize that he had a talent for sand sculpting. Ever since he kept sand sculpting and developed his talent over the decade.
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Andoni is fascinated by how nature works. The combination of sand bits has to be held together and to be shaped into something magnificent. Also, eventually, the sand dries up the humidity takes back the sculpture down, and returns to the general form as the sand on the beach.
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The way that sand works teach us a big message on how we can unite to create something beautiful rather than laying around to be meaningless and nothing. He believes that rather than humans, animals have a free spirit and that’s something that humans can look up to. That’s the reason he sculpts animal figures.
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The nudity of the animals is forever in their existence. They do not try to cover their bodies in clothing to be adaptable. They embrace their true form, with power, freedom, and life itself. They’re not prisoners of a concept that dictates worrying about their appearance. The freedom that their spirits have and the true form that they live in, give people something to self-reflect about themselves.
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He uses natural tools such as sharpened sticks, feathers, stones, and wood to create his amazing art. More than 95% of his art is sea sand. This type of art is not easy to create. It takes patience and concentration to create these sculptures out of the sand. Andoni takes time to finish a sand art. Small sculptures such as dogs and cats take about 2 to 4 hours but a big sculpture can take around 2 days to create.
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