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