Its like pissing in the snow ...... somewhat pointless but you gotta do it

Jim Denevan is an artist in pursuit of impermanence. Fleeting moments of perfection are what he does best using the medium of temporary land art. Sand temporarily washed smooth by the waves or the frozen surface of an ice lake in Siberia are the natural canvases that Jim uses to make temporary drawing on. Lines scratched in the sand, or earth or gouged in ice are a temporary record of mans interaction with the planet, all eventually erased by waves and weather. These massive geometric patterns carved into the earth are ever vulnerable to the elements and often the only way to record them is by photographs. Sometimes the only way to fully comprehend their scale is by air.

SAND

Denevan then walks for miles, leading his chosen drawing stick in a dance performed to the music of the ocean and the spirit of the place. Denevan says, "My movement has a present. And then where I want to be, that's the future. ... Then the line has a past."

EARTH

video of the monumental black rock sands work 

"When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked."
-- Jim Denevan

On May 2009, Jim created what was billed as the largest drawing in the world as wide as Manhattan on the vast stretches of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. The 48-year old sand artist spent two weeks drawing on the beds of the dried Salt Lake in May producing this, his largest work of art. 

The in March of 2010, Jim Denevan and his crew created a large scale artwork that was a spiral of circles, along a Fibonacci curve, growing from an origin of 18″ to several miles in diameter on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, Siberia.

ICE

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