Landscape artist Andres Amador creates beautiful etchings by racking away the sand on beaches. This process is done during low tide, which allows him to create on a much larger scale. Amador uses only a rake, which exposes the wetter sand and causes a color difference between the raked and unraked sand, this better showcases the beautiful designs. Usually, Amadors work involves geometric and organic shapes, but sometimes he gets requests for custom pieces, such as marriage proposals or birthday greetings. As you may have guessed creating on the beach allows for the work to only be visible for a short period of time, usually long enough to capture a few images before it is quickly washed away by the encroaching tide. This might seem devastating to some but Amador doesn't mind, he is more interested in the process rather then creating for the final product.
Andreas Amador writes in his bio
"The only constant in this existence is impermanence. In the end our lives are about the experiences we've had, not the things we have held on to. And in the face of certain erasure, in the face of our own personal, inevitable demise, the act of rallying forces on behalf of creation and beauty is a declaration of one' existences in the face of a seemingly indifferent ocean of reality. I really like that metaphor- it encourages and propels me." Andres Amador
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* All images from Andres Amador
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