Nov 2 2020 - Of Sand and Sea

 

Gerry found an artist who paints in the sand on the ocean shore.  He is Nico Laan.  His website says: "An anamorphosis is a representation that you have to look at from a specific point of view. With 3D objects this gives a spatial effect and with flat subjects a certain 'friction'. Later on I started to focus more on 'ordinary' drawings, which do not require a special point of view. The challenge lies in finding a camera position in which landscape and drawing reinforce each other."   Vast on the landscape, these transfix our attention.  His website is HERE. It includes a short video and images of how the drawings are used to guide the work, the grid is created and the trenches are dug for the lines.    In 2020 alone he's created 6 works.  The top one, Waterline is one of these, and the next one, Sandmen was created in 2019. The bucket is titled Water to the Sea and created in 2014. Today's picture is my Acer Palmatum Osakazuki out front - this year it has the reddest of red leaves as is the promise of this gorgeous Japanese Maple.  It too is transfixing.