Relentless

Andres Amador's race against the tide.

There is something incredibly fulfilling and near-perfect in the way wet sand can be leisurely shaped into all sorts of intricate forms.

It only takes a handful of seconds and a dash of imagination - we can swiftly emulate nearly any shape, destroy it and create another one. Nothing is lost or gained, except perhaps, an afternoon at the beach. But that is what summer’s for.

From what we can tell, Andres Amador has spent quite a lot of his time on the beach, exploring the seemingly limitless potential of what can be done with sand.

His approach is a bit more subdued than just building a giant sand castle or carving out glorified crop-circles. The dramatic geometric contours, raked in the coastline look indestructible. How could something so apparently solid and harmonious be susceptible to any old gust of breeze or ocean wave?

Well we may not have the answer, but we know that the appeal of Mr. Amador’s work is in its transiency; much like Buddhist sand mandalas, his work is free from the constraints of permanence.

He lets things go their natural course and just cracks on with another design.