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Mesmerizing Self-Drawing Sand Drawing Machine

Ryan Nance June 5, 2015

The Sisyphus Machine uses moving magnets under the sand tray to roll the steel balls, etching out these Zen-inspired patterns. Created by Bruce Shapiro, a former physician who has working on computerized motion as an artist for the last 25 years.

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In 5tilt Tags art, sand art, kinetic art

3D Sand Beach Drawings

Ryan Nance June 3, 2014

Public sand on beaches is something we've seen before, but never 3D drawings like these from Ben Harkins. 

Ben Harkins:

“We’ve seen other people doing stuff on beaches, but it’s always been geometric, flat shapes, like a pattern, so we thought we’d get into the whole 3D thing. And I kind of like the fact that it disappears at the end of the day when the tide comes in. It makes it impermanent.”

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In 5tilt Tags sand art, beaches, 3d

Sand Paintings on City Streets by Joe Mangrum

Ryan Nance February 4, 2014

Joe Mangrum uses colored sand, spending up to 8 hours meticulously dropping it into these stunning, and temporary, figures on the streets of New York, San Francisco, Chicago and more.

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In 5tilt Tags sand art, street art, temporary art

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