Before drone photography it was nearly impossible to get a feeling of how things looked from the air. Booking a helicopter or plane to shoot from was not really something within the budget of this project so we had to make it up by taking some long walks with a sketch pad and map.
Now of course drones are two a penny and Duncannon can be seen from the air in all it's beauty and our map looks like some of the old-worldy maps by cartographers who never even visited the lands.
For the 2004 Duncannon sand sculpture festival we wanted to make something a little different from our usual sculptures and hit on the idea of making a little model of the village with as much detail as we could fit into the time we had.
I was joined by @stijgerart and Edith Van Der Wetering from Holland and we acted like little 3d printers working our way down the pile of sand to make the village and it's hinterland.
It was great fun making the little models and we were amazed at how little detail we needed to add to give a good impression from a distance. As the bigger picture came into view all the imperfections didn't matter. A box with a couple of holes cut in for windows was a building and wet sand dripped around the place was enough for trees and bushes.
When the locals were let in to see our work they loved to point out places they knew. ' There's me grannies house' and 'For feck sake, if it isn't Milo's fishing boat'. When we could we added in things they suggested.
Even though we spent the couple of days of the project on our knees carving we had great fun and loved the interactions with the village folk.
We of course had to put in the little poly tunnel tent on the beach where we were actually making the sculpture (To the right of the fort) and inside that we made an exact replica of the sculpture we were making and in that we made another little tent and inside that another littler tent and so on to the microscopic infinity.
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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.
The Martyr - sand sculpture
Clash - short film
Berlin Olympics 1936 - sand sculpture
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