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Using Rakes and Ropes to Create Art
00:43 - 02:20
Earthscape artist Andre Amador uses the beach and geometry to create beautiful temporary artistic patterns that are both geometrical and organic.
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using
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materials
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of their
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that will go back to the earth
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my tools are my rakes
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the entire beach is my canvas
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sometimes it feels like
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the designs are wanting to
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express themselves and I've been chosen [censored]
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the means by which they will occur
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the
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two main
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directions that I go with in the arts
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are
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the
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geometric
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which is very precise
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all about perfection
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I %HESITATION
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the other side
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of it
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is
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%HESITATION the organic aren't
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the art that he feels like it
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emerging from the location
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that's
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me what to do next
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especially when I'm doing that
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the
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more organic forms
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I can feel
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Kurds
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I can feel how something is supposed to move
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making it engages my whole body
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to maximize my canvas
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I need to work
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after there's been a significant high tide
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and
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now this is a good thing at low tide
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I've been much more attuned to how
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just the world around us shifts
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in a way that
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as a city boy
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I was not quite
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aware of
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there
