The urge to draw images in sand, or create sand sculptures, seems to be irresistible, as a walk on many a modern beach or dune surface will show. Sand is a vast canvas – and may have been used as one ...

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a figure who was doomed to roll a boulder for eternity as a punishment from the gods. Inspired by this, [Aidan], [Jorge], and [Henry] decided to build a sand-drawing ...

Not many people around the world watched the inaugural season of Ukraine's Got Talent on TV last spring. But since then, the winning performance—a live sand drawing by Kseniya Simonova—has received ...

Example of a sona design in which both horizontal and vertical mirrors are required to trace out the corresponding single-loop light path. The storyteller would clean and smooth the ground, then use ...

The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense of ...

Two nice ladies building castles in the sand with a cute little girl hardly seems like fodder for the police blotter. But this is Malibu, where people call the cops on other people just for sitting on ...