17 Peace Monuments Made of Sand
Monuments are permanent by definition, and sand sculptures deteriorate relatively soon, but - hey! - nothing lasts forever, and sand sculptures are "permanent" as long as they last -- same as everything else.The world's best known sand sculptor appers to be Sudarsan Pattnaik of Puri (India). Similar works have been achieved by Osama Sbeata of Gaza (Palestine).
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September? 2010 - "Picasso Dove of Peace," Crosby Beach, near Liverpool (England). By Jamie Wardley & others. "The Sandinyoureye team led 25 Holly Lodge Girls College students in a sand drawing workshop to produce this Picasso Dove of Peace image on Crosby Beach to promote an event at the Liverpool Tate." /// Click here for 1:21 YouTube video showing the making of this sand drawing. ENGLAND 2010 DOVES
September 21, 2013 - "The Fallen 9,000," Normandy Beach (France). "9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand to Commemorate Peace Day. ...British artists Jamie Wardley & Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes & stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand... a stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans & allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944, during WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide." FRANCE PALESTINE 2013
2014 - "BRICS - Strengthening Trust And Mutual Understanding," Puri, Odisha (India). "Indian reputed sand artist Sri Manas Kumar Sahoo has created a sand sculpture at the golden sea-beach (near Light House), Puri, situated at a distance of 65 km, from Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha, to celebrate through his sand art the 6th BRICS summit held in Fortaleza (Brazil). Mr. Sahoo prepared a beautiful sand sculpture to give the message of peace & brotherhood among the BRICS nation [sic], to eliminate poverty & for further economic cooperation for speedy development of the member nations." INDIA 2014 PAKISTAN
2014 - "Worn Out" (Palestine). "Ongoing Nakba memorial MT Iyad Sabbah: Sand sculptures of people fleeing their homes in Gaza [2014]." /// "Iyad Ramadan Sabbah is a Palestinian sculptor born 1973 in Gaza who lives & works there...This exhibition is meant to show the horrors Palestinians faced in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza city, which saw some of the heaviest fighting in the summer’s 50-day conflict (2014). More than 2,200 people were killed, 11,200 civilians were injured & thousands of houses were razed by Israel..." TIBET LA 2015
March 11-15, 2015 - Sand Mandala for World Peace, Tibetan House, 4900 Tchoupitoulas Street, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA). "Tibetan House would like to express deep gratitude for those of you who generously helped with the visit of the Drepung Gomang Monastery monks, as well as everyone who viewed the mandala in its creation & dissolution, and contributed to the Monastery. We are overjoyed with the response. It was heartwarming to observe young & old, & in-between, discover for the first time the mesmerizing beauty & transforming qualities of a Tibetan Buddhist Sand Mandala, as it comes into being & then swept away & offered into the waters. It was truly awe inspiring."
LOUISIANA 2015
April 2016 - "Sudarsan Pattnaik won the people's choice prize for his sand sculpture titled "Mahatma Gandhi - World Peace" at the ninth Moscow Sand Sculpture Championship 2016."
