SAND CALLIGRAPHY | Andrew van der Merwe
Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 12:51PM 
EPHEMERAL SAND CALLIGRAPHY | Andrew van der Merwe
"Even wordless writing must have a logic, a system of movement, a poetry" said Andrew van der Merwe. The Cape Town based artist and calligrapher uses sand as his canvas, creating massive and ephemeral messages that are often most impactful when not fully understood. I have loved writing since my first writing lessons as a child and a beach is like a giant piece of paper so it was only natural for me to begin writing there. To this day I remember my first writing lessons and the feeling of the pencil sliding over paper. I have similar memories of the first time I made marks in the sand with sticks and shells. Over time, as I fell more in love with calligraphy, I began experimenting with other tools and making my own instruments to give me more calligraphically pleasing marks in the sand."
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