Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Sand Drawings

We are in Thailand right now. Last night we walked down the beach and came to this huge stretch of beach that looked like someone had made hundreds of abstract drawings all over the beach. It turned out that it was actually a small neighborhood of burrowing crabs that were simply rolling up balls of sand and pushing them out of their holes in the sand. The tropical breeze would shift directions re arranging them into these beautiful shapes.

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5 comments:

Sally Veach said...

Wow, that is incredible! Love it, and too bad a person didn't create it-- It would be beautiful art! But it is nature's art, so that's great too. :-)

Unknown said...

amazing

ArtPropelled said...

Beautiful!

Anonymous said...

I think a lot about abstraction. I am thinking of it more and more as the random things that we find in nature. Things that we don't know how they happened or where they came from but, are amazing none the less. Thanks! I hope to go to Thailand next year. Now I am really excited.

Karin Bartimole said...

fascinating and beautiful - ahhh nature!