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“Nothing else is on my mind when I’m doing my artwork. You can’t hear the cars. The city washes away. I kind of feel as though I’m painting. I’m using my whole body, and the end of the rake is my brush.” – Andres Amador

Andres working

Earthscape Artist: Andres Amador

Recently featured in a San Francisco Chronicle video (see above), Andres Amador is an “Earthscape Artist”, based in San Francisco. His artwork can span over 100,000 feet, achievable only during low tide. With tight time constraints and big goals, Andres is posed with the question: ‘How does one efficiently create from within that which one is creating?’ Exploring this concept of self-creation has brought Andres to investigate natural and human-devised systems of structure and growth. His artworks do not last long- within minutes of finishing a piece, and often while still in progress, the returning tide begins resetting the canvas. Andres has been featured by the BBC, CNN, Discovery Channel, and numerous T.V. programs and periodicals globally. His artwork has appeared on beaches in the US and internationally, with his primary canvas being the Northern California coastline.

Amador says, “My work metaphorically explores the fundamental ways that humans experience reality through patterns: patterns of energy, patterns of light, patterns of form. Patterns take on tremendous significance- culturally through the use of symbols that denote advanced concepts, materially through the application of pattern awareness (as in architecture), and personally/emotionally through the perception of patterns of life and within one’s own life.”

Below is a gallery of some of his works. You can see more at his website: http://www.andresamadorarts.com/

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