The Sandsara is a tabletop kinetic sculpture that creates infinite art patterns in the sand. To the naked eye, it’s simply a hypnotic, eye-catching piece — the sculpture’s tiny ball moves across the ...

The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense of ...

How hard would you work in order to impress your love interest? Would you be willing to spend seven days, 24 hours each day, sculpting a complex but ultimately ephemeral design into the sandy seafloor ...

In an ever-busy world, where the humdrum of our daily lives may often leave us feeling overwhelmed, we are constantly seeking ways to find balance and tranquility. Imagine a tool designed to reduce ...

[Mark]’s sand table wisely has a glass top. Most of us have probably seen a video of a sand drawing table at work, in which a steel ball — magnetically-coupled to a gantry under a layer of sand — ...

It's a sunny midweek afternoon and low tide and a vast stretch of flat sand has created an enticing blank canvas for artist Alex McNaught. With limited tools, he is transforming the sands at Port ...

Andrew Clemens invented, then perfected, the art of the sand bottle in the late nineteenth century. By Leslie Umberger and Jill Vaum Rothschild Andrew Clemens, Untitled (The Mary Heye Bottle), 1883, ...

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Chladni figures are patterns that appear on surfaces when they are made to vibrate at certain resonances. It sounds dry, but throw in some sand and just the right frequencies and it becomes an amazing ...

HAMPTON – Some people talk to their pastor, some to counselors, but when Sebastian Privitera seeks solace, he heads to Hampton Beach to create masterpieces on its glistening sand. “It’s my therapy,” ...

Gripped between her two hands is a rake that flows like an extension of her body, etching designs into the sand. In her ears, music blares from her headphones. The flowy, multicolored dress-wearing ...