Seaweed

• Little piles of wet sand are cast in a swirl from their rear end as part of their feeding cycle.
• They are but one of an untold number of other participants in the constant evolution of forms at our water’s edge.
• The forming of grains into what we commonly call a sandcastle on the other hand, speaks to a particularly human intentionality.

In collaboration with the beach

• Building a sandcastle is a response to the full beach environment as a collaborator.
• We attune ourselves to the quality of the sand, marvel at the comings and goings of the water and orient our construction for the wind’s abrasive blast.
• We are vigilant to dogs’ unintended mark making, and backward running ball catchers who involuntarily progress our work from castle to ruin.

Attending to sand

• Particular qualities of sand can be revealed to those who remain aware.
• Rain falling from the sky onto fine sand creates a crispy layer over the drier sand below.

• In construction there is sharp sand, fat sand and sand of specific dimensions.
• The sand at the beach is the sand of that beach, undifferentiated by industrial ecologies and taken at its face value.

Working against collapse

Making objects with sand at the beach is a most egalitarian form of art making. Critiques of our constructions are generally of the generous kind. Passersby will applaud the magnitude of our creation, share in the joy as water fills our castle’s moats, and laugh shamelessly when the whole structure collapses.

• We can understand that sand slumps in a particular way, and compact it in anticipation.
• Seagrass, kelp, stones, glass and the egg sacs of moon snails may all present themselves for inclusion in a sandcastle.
• Collapse is the thing you work against.

Mark Friedlander does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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