Painting with Sand

dkoyanagi

I went to the Museum of Anthropology on Saturday, expecting to take the usual photos. Boy, did I luck out!







The rest of the photos are here: http://dkoyanagi.smugmug.com/gallery/1391590

Those sticks they're using are hollow metal funnels. They have raised grooves on top and when another funnel is rubbed against it, it vibrates and causes a trickle of colored sand to pour from the pointy end. It also makes a wonderful metalic rattling sound and when all four of them get going it drowns out all other sounds in the room. It's very hypnotic watching them work.

Skippy

Brilliant

dkoyanagi wrote:

I went to the Museum of Anthropology on Saturday, expecting to take the usual photos. Boy, did I luck out!

The rest of the photos are here: http://dkoyanagi.smugmug.com/gallery/1391590

Those sticks they're using are hollow metal funnels. They have raised grooves on top and when another funnel is rubbed against it, it vibrates and causes a trickle of colored sand to pour from the pointy end. It also makes a wonderful metalic rattling sound and when all four of them get going it drowns out all other sounds in the room. It's very hypnotic watching them work.

Ohhhhhhh wow you were there at the right time hu
What an amazing piece of ART in the making is that .......I'm stunned, so delicate and precise, such beautiful colours.

Look at the concentration on their faces, yet they seem to create their Art so easily...... it is just Brilliant ... I love it

Thank you for sharing this wonderful post of yours..... Skippy (Australia)

DavidTO

Beautiful. Amazing what people can do. I keep thinking, what if they sneeze?

rahmonster

oh this always amazes me. I did some workshops with some tibetan monks a couple of years ago, and they were teaching us to do this. However....I did not do very well. It is very very hard.

Excellent shots.

dkoyanagi

Skippy wrote:

Ohhhhhhh wow you were there at the right time hu
What an amazing piece of ART in the making is that .......I'm stunned, so delicate and precise, such beautiful colours.

Look at the concentration on their faces, yet they seem to create their Art so easily...... it is just Brilliant ... I love it

Thank you for sharing this wonderful post of yours..... Skippy (Australia)

Thanks Skippy. I agree, the human creative spirit never ceases to amaze me. I feel very fortunate to have seen this.

dkoyanagi

DavidTO wrote:

I keep thinking, what if they sneeze?

I don't know. I have a feeling that the monks would simply shrug and think "such is the impermanence of worldly things."

dkoyanagi

rahmonster wrote:

oh this always amazes me. I did some workshops with some tibetan monks a couple of years ago, and they were teaching us to do this. However....I did not do very well. It is very very hard.

Excellent shots.

Thanks Rahmonster!

TristanP

Now THAT'S cool.

ian408

That's such a cool art form. I see them so loveingly created then enjoyed and
finally, swept away.

Very nice capture!

Awais Yaqub

wOW for you and the people in the pictures great series

illuminati919

WOW, that is probably one of the coolest art forms that I have ever seen, but it would suck if you sneeze of messesed up, you would have to restart a whole piece all over. Awesome photos, capturing some great moments !

dkoyanagi

TristanP wrote:

Now THAT'S cool.

I agree.

dkoyanagi

ian408 wrote:

That's such a cool art form. I see them so loveingly created then enjoyed and
finally, swept away.

Very nice capture!

Thanks Ian!

dkoyanagi

Awais Yaqub wrote:

wOW for you and the people in the pictures great series

Thanks Awais!

dkoyanagi

illuminati919 wrote:

WOW, that is probably one of the coolest art forms that I have ever seen, but it would suck if you sneeze of messesed up, you would have to restart a whole piece all over. Awesome photos, capturing some great moments !

Thanks Marko!

ultravox

Dan that is great.