Covid 19 breakout brought a hard time for everyone’s life though, there are some little good things even in it, as the saying “every dark cloud has a silver lining”. It helped the people to think in a different way, helped to bring out the hidden skills and ideas in a creative way, with the isolating break it gave.
Anna Chan who is New York based artist works as designer & jeweler also explored her artistic talent with seashells during pandemic. Seashells are such charming little pieces which elaborate the beach. But we never imagine that they could turn into such beautiful realistic animal portraits.
In
the beginning she went to Robert Moses state park at the beach with a different
idea, where she started this animal portraits. "First I tried to make sand
sculptures for the calender of year 2021. But then, the idea developed into
this seashell artwork & now I’m really obsessed with this” she utters.
Even
though the sculptors seem simple the process is difficult. Because it’s hard to
find exact piece of seashell which fills the mosaic to bring the expected
elegant look. On the other hand, she uses only raw sand and water to get the
basic shape of the sculptor. As sand fall apart easily by nature, it needs to
make sure she adds exact amount of water to make sand moist enough to keep the
shape steady until whole mosaic done. As she says, from collecting shells to
complete the portrait it takes at least 3 days, if it’s a huge one.
At
first, she used to creat these sculptors at the beach itself, but later as she
starts more intricate and bigger mosaics, she has to change her working place
to home because it took a lot of time.
Her first creations were demounted as they were
fugacious though, the portraits she created lately can be seen at her home
garage. And just as she improved her sculptors to keep permanent, they’d
display at a gallery or somewhere they deserve to be.
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