Oh, I wish I had known about this last week!
The World Beach Project is a collaborative art project concepted and organized by artist Sue Lawty and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sue’s idea was to have people all over the globe submit drawings and sculptures they have made with stones on the beach.
photo submitted by Peter, Clare, Liz, Matt, Jack, Dan, Katie, Jess James, Sue Lawty & friends in Porth Ysgo, Wales
From Sue’s blog: “World Beach was conceived as a global drawing project; a stone drawing project that would speak about time, place, geology and the base instinct of touch. Drawings made on shorelines all over the world, which although erased by the next tide or rains, would be collected within the V&A to become a permanent record of the individual human desire to make pattern.”
photo submitted by Alex Whittlesea of Minnis Bay, Birchington, Kent
“To pick up a rock, is to touch base. Touching stones gives us a primal, spiritual connection with the earth. When we handle a stone, we hold in our hands a small drawing, a tiny piece of the map; we are holding time.”
photo submitted by Chris Dunseath of Appledore, Devon
To find out more about this project and how to send in photos of your own stone patterns, click here.
