Images in the Californian Sand

If you’re lucky enough to live in California then you of course know all the obvious benefits: warm climate, beautiful landscape, a former Hollywood Governor and of course the artworks of Andres Amador.

If you don’t frequent the sunny Californian beaches too often, you’re now in for a treat.

These beautiful but fleeting works in sand are by Andres Amador.  His medium sand, his tools, a rake and sometimes a few volunteers. He carves these geometric and organic patterns into the sand.

Amador creates these beautiful pieces at low tide being washed away with following tide. Leaving
just enough time to capture images from vantage points, or aerially using a quadrocopter.

Amador says of his fleeting works:

For me it is more about the process and less about the result. I can be a stickler for getting something the way I think I want it- which is more goal-focused. But ultimately, when it is finished, I let it go. For me the energy and draw is around the act of creation.

His reason for doing it? “Its fun. I get to be at the beach”. We hear that.

Santa Cruz
Image courtesy Andres Amador