Send me Sand

Do you remember that scene from Saving Private Ryan where one of the characters collects sand from the Normandy beach and puts it is his pack, revealing the tins from all his other campaigns? I’m doing some similar but with the ambitious intention of getting some from everywhere in the world. Not just every country but different parts of some countries too, states, islands etc. There’s some beautiful sand out there from twinkling, ground up shells to black, volcanic grit. I’ll even take some moon dust if you have it. If your country has no sand, send a rock, I’ll make the sand! With it all I will make a series of very impactful sculptures about saving the planet from us and for us. But I can’t tell you any more.

Please help me get a sandwich bag or a plastic bottle full of sand from your country…

I need your help for three reasons: 1) I could never get to every country in the world. 2) If I did the environmental cost just to make an artwork would be stupid. 3) I probably don’t speak your language but you might speak mine and maybe you can ask someone back home to do it for you…

Please email me to check I don’t have your country yet and to get instructions where to send it, how I can refund your postage and how to sterilise the sand first. I hope to post an interactive list of countries I have and need – somehow. HTML skills anyone?!

Please feel free to share this page to anybody you think might be interested.

The Great Wall project took me five years with the help of 400 volunteer models and countless studio assistants. They are the real heroes and they should be totally proud, given the impact and reach of that artwork.

See here my legacy of sociopolitical artworks. Because they can take years to produce they don’t come thick and fast but have been a constant in my practice since art school. All my other work helps to fund these, sometimes difficult to realise, projects.

 

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