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Andres Amador is an American artist, known for his large-scale organic sand drawings. [1]
He grew up in San Francisco and received a BA in Environmental Science. He joined the Peace Corps and then became a computer technician. [2] In 1999, he made a visit to the Burning Man, a life-changing experience that led him to quit his job and start a new life. [3]
He was drawn to ancient geometric art after studying crop circle reconstructions. in 2004 on Kalalau Beach on the Hawaiian island of Kaua' he was showing a friend the geometric art he had been studying by drawing in the sand with stick. He had a sudden brainstorm that he could create enormous designs in the sand. His first creation was in 2004 on Ocean Beach in San Francisco. [4]
He has created these artistic drawings on beaches in the United States, Mexico and the Channel Islands. He's used about 30 beaches and has drawn hundreds of these short-lived artworks. [4] His work usually takes no more than two hours to create and is done with tools that look like rakes. His earthscapes fall into two categories. Some are geometric while others are organic or free form. [5] He creates commissioned work and installations for businesses and individuals across the US and Europe. he also has Playa Painting Workships where participants collaborate to design and create their own sand artwork. [6]
"If I can inspire others, I hope that I can offer the message that the path is more important than the destination -- that the journey should be the focus. When one is experiencing joy, then the world also receives that joy. And the world can always use more joy."
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A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shells or coralline algae. Sediments settle in different densities and structures, depending on the local wave action and weather, creating different textures, colors and gradients or layers of material.
Driftwood is wood that has been washed onto a shore or beach of a sea, lake, or river by the action of winds, tides or waves.
Burning Man is a festival focused on community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance held annually in the western United States. The event derives its name from its culmination: the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred to as the Man, that occurs on the penultimate night of Burning Man, which is the Saturday evening before Labor Day. The event has been located since 1991 at Black Rock City in northwestern Nevada, a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert about 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Reno. As outlined by Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey in 2004, the event is guided by ten principles: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, and immediacy.
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American artist and entrepreneur
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