{"id":28580,"date":"2015-10-07T10:39:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T09:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/?p=28580"},"modified":"2017-11-21T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T11:25:05","slug":"marian-bantjes-creates-art-using-dirt-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/marian-bantjes-creates-art-using-dirt-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Marian Bantjes creates art using dirt from around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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When ordinary people return home from vacations, from a travel to diffente places, it\u2019s quite usual that they return with souvenirs, like a mini Eiffel Tower or a \u201cI Love NY\u201d shirt. What about if of all the different places you had been so far, you collected dirt?! Well, that\u2019s what the designer<\/strong> and artist\u00a0Marian Bantjes<\/a> creates art using dirt from around the world.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Designer Marian Bantjes brings home samples of dirt. After travelling through exotic destinations<\/strong><\/a> such as Brazil, South Africa, Thailand and the Philippines, Bantjes has to explain to customs officers why her suitcase contains small jars of soil or sand. This year, she used a small part of the collection to create a mandala-like poster for Alliance Graphique International (AGI)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The painstaking process started with a pencil drawing of the geometric pattern and lettering that says \u201cCoexistence\u201d. She then added the soil and sand, using a variety of methods. She was able to pour some from a spout, while others had to be added in an even layer and then moved with a paintbrush.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe materials vary in size of grains and evenness,\u201d Bantjes told Co.Design. \u201cThe smoothest sand from Thailand was the easiest to work with. Other sands were lumpy or sticky with salt.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cEveryone who has seen this mentions the Tibetan sandpaintings,\u201d<\/em> Bantjes said on her blog. \u201cI can\u2019t say I had Tibet in mind when I made this. Merely Coexistence.\u201d<\/em> However, like sand paintings and traditional mandalas, the sand in Bantjes\u2019s striking work was not glued down. After photographing the design, she swept the sand away, destroying the original artwork.<\/p>\n

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When ordinary people return home from vacations, from a travel to diffente places, it\u2019s quite usual that they return with souvenirs, like a mini Eiffel Tower or a \u201cI Love NY\u201d shirt. What about if of all the different places you had been so far, you collected dirt?! Well, that\u2019s what the designer and artist\u00a0Marian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":28586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1704],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}