Summary: Stunning pictures of the beach art of Andres Amador.
We all have the creative drive within us. All we lack is a medium. Some people express their art through paintings, sculpture, and music. Andres Amador expresses his through beach sand. Along beaches near San Francisco, California, Amador spends hours raking the beaches into intricate and supple designs, despite knowing the rising tide will soon erase his work.
There is something Buddhist in his conception of art, not that it will be “more lasting than bronze,” but that it is ephemeral. As he said, his art is “more about the process and less about the result.”
The results, nevertheless, are stunning.
Amador uses a mere rope and rake and just a few hours to create a sand canvas sweeping at times bigger than 100,000 sq. ft.
Why beaches? Why this medium? “The unanswerable question!” he responds. “It’s fun. I get to be at the beach.”
Perhaps no deeper philosophical answer is needed. Once we find what expresses our soul, we need look no deeper in the matter, but simply act, move, engage, and do what we love to do.
There are endless new mediums for art composition, as well as the old. We need only find our appropriate outlet, whether in creating relationships, or in humming while we work, or in raking grand-scale murals on the sands of a low tide beach.
