In the world of sand sculpture there are two types of people those who don't like making sand castles and those with an anally retentive ungodly fetish for making straight lines and tinny weeny windows. Thankfully for my own sanity I fit into the first category.
I have very rarely made a sand castle an have on very few occasions been asked to attempt one. but when I have I feel like I am in a constant fight with the material and what ever I can achieve is sub-par to what the perverts in category two can do.Their patience and attention to detail is breath taking and to see what they can do in this genre makes me feel inadequate.
It's a crazy world
I present you now with one of my 'rare' attempts. Made in the seaside village of Tossens, Germany along with my old and equally as crazy friends @stijgerart and Edith Van Der Wetering.
Our sculpture was to be the Demo pile on this project themed on Dragons. After some chatting we thought it would be cool to make a dragon race like it was some sort of sport practiced in a fictional land. Of course having a big pointy compaction of sand didn't lend itself well to many designs so we had to think outside the box.
What if we were to create a landscape based on the movie Inception? A movie that didn't exist at the time. We could carve all the surface like it was a planet and have the dragons racing around it. This would give the viewer a birds eye view of all the action and create a perspective never seen before in sand sculpture.
Bending the landscape to match the surface of the block of sand led us to having the top of the sculpture be viewed from above and as we worked down to the ground the viewer would see it from the side. This is all a very difficult thing to explain in words so hopefully you can get what I mean by looking at the images.
Top down the finest castle
My castle was from a top down view but carved sideways, a bit of a mind melt to achieve to make sure it had enough support to stop it sliding down the mountain. I had a brain wave to have one of the dragons flying on by and with the trail he left behind I could use to hold the castle up. You can see where he just clipped the castle tower as he flew by. (All my posts have click-able images so you can see them in their original high-def vista-vision glory)
The dragons themselves where quite small so that they would fit in with the landscape and they were beginning their race from a large amphitheatre made by Edith and Wilfred on the other-side. Edith got it into her head to fill the stadium with people and spent days in her little cave.
The whole piece worked out quite nicely and had a certain mind F%*Kedness about it. Wilfred did a very nice job carving this canyon. For me making the castle only reinforced my dislike of making straight lines and windows. I did think it looked cool, especially the way it sloped down into the town that surrounded it but, as you can probably tell if you have been following my other posts organic carving is more my thing.
Ps
Thanks for reading. I use Steem to document my work as an ephemeral Sculptor of sand, snow and ice, among other things. This will hopefully give it a new life on the Steem blockchain. Below you will find some of my recent posts.
Circus - sand sculpture
Romulus and Remus - sand sculpture
Athena - sand sculpture
I hope you'll join me again soon
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