It started out as 12 yards of glacier sand trucked in from Silverdale on June 7th, poured into an empty lot next to Adagio Bean and Leaf Coffeehouse. This is what it looked like as of July 4th, after about 100 person hours of work. The artist is Kali Bradford of Sequim, who has been constructing it in anticipation of the Lavender Faire and Festival. As you can see, it’s quite detailed.
Bradford has sculpted in sand competitions around the world and intends to finish on July 17th, by which time another estimated 100 person hours will have gone into in the work. To prevent erosion, the piece is sprayed with nine parts of water to one part of white glue. Though one would think rain would melt it, water runs through, packing more tightly the flat surfaces of the sand granules. Bradford suggests that the piece could last until the weather freezes.
Wow. It wouldn’t look anything like that if you gave me the sand and 100 hours. Very impressive work by Kali.
That is amazing – I can barely fill a bucket and mold that into an – ummm – well – a bucket shape. What a lucky community to have such an artist.
It’s amazing what some people can do with just sand.
I find this incredible. Really. How can someone do this? What skills does it take? I’m in awe of this kind of thing. It must have resided in the mind of the sculptor before he undertook the work. What mind conceives of such a thing and then puts that conception into a creation made of sand?
Fantastic, Kay. There have been sand sculpture festivals in Fort Myers Beach, near my Florida home, but I have never gone to see them. I wondered how they deal with rain.
Another wonderful post that is visually attractive with interesting background information. So much talent in the world! I’m still debating about whether I should buy one of the those beautiful baskets, but I’m trying to downsize!