World Championship of Sand Sculpting

I just came across some amazing sand sculptures! These are just some of the works of art created at the World Championship. Via

Bleeding Light Sculpture

Via NotCot: Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I've seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light

On her website, Paige writes:

Expansion

76 x 35 x 17"

From the moment we are born,

the world tends to have a

container already built for us

to fit inside: A social security

number, a gender, a race,

a profession or an I.Q. I ponder

if we are more defined by the

container we are in, rather than

what we are inside. Would we

recognize ourselves if we could

expand beyond our bodies?

Would we still be able to exist

if we were authentically

'un-contained'?

Paige Bradley

City of Ash

Look closer at Yang Yongliang's newest sculpture, and you will see a cityscape cleverly disguised as ash from a cigarette.

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