Beach Printing, An Transitory Art
I’m a little leery of a steamroller running up and down a beach, but if those concerns have been addressed, there is a certain grace in the transitory nature of this bit art. The more mischievous part of me wonders if the roller could be equipped with giant, Godzilla-like tracks, however. 🙂
A Sign in Space is an art installation at Spain’s Laga Beach by Gunilla Klingberg that reminds us of man’s relatively transient footprint. It’s a “truck tire star pattern” that’s diligently embossed into the sand at low tide, only to be washed away at high tide. The beach becomes a giant groomed sculpture, only to turn back into unformed sand.
It’s a “handmade” cylinder that connects to the area’s normal beach-cleaner tractor that required a custom towing system to be constructed as well. And because of local labor hours, it actually can’t groom the beach at every low tide. Rather, A Sign in Space will “perform” 13 days during a 3-month period.
