{"id":16926,"date":"2016-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-hakamagwp.pantheonsite.io\/news\/lines-sand"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:59:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:59:51","slug":"lines-sand","status":"publish","type":"custom_quick","link":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/article-short\/lines-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines in the Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ever built a sand castle on the beach as a kid, you know exactly what happens when the tide comes in: your masterpiece quickly becomes a blank canvas again, and you have to choose whether to see it as a tragedy or an opportunity. Here are some artists who didn\u2019t give up on playing in the sand, but instead took to drawing bigger and more elaborate creations.<\/p>\n

Tony Plant, Cornwall, United Kingdom<\/h2>\n

Tony Plant<\/a>\u2019s enormous drawings have swirled across seashores around the world, from the many beaches of his home turf in southwest England to the sultry sands of Bermuda. \u201cI live and grew up on the coast, and I\u2019ve always drawn,\u201d explains Plant. For the lifelong surfer, the beach is \u201ca very natural place\u201d to make art. Of all the inherent challenges of the process, his most pressing concern is time. Planning a piece may involve multiple seasons of sketching and countless trips to the coast to create a composition that has a relationship with the beach\u2019s natural features and boundaries. But when it comes time to make the final drawing, Plant is limited to the relatively brief span between high tides. He jokes that when he\u2019s working on larger drawings, which can reach a few hundred meters across, \u201ctides seem to move faster.\u201d<\/p>\n