A mythical siren of the ancient Greek legend, cut into sand when he attracted a sailor to his death, was a winning sculpture on the Australian Sand Sculpting Championships this year.
The work of Tasmanian artist Meg Murray, Screech of the Sea, carefully etched from a 10-ton mountain of Bouwers Zand, took the top gong home in the solo category of the competition during the weekend.
Meg Murray’s screams from the sea won the main prize from the Solo Sculpture category. ((Delivered: N Hughes Media))
As the stories go, the beautiful sirens would use the power of song to lure men out of their ships before transfiguring into horrible hags to damn their prisoners at sea.
“I wanted to convey the more villainous side of the siren, the seductive songs to lure the sailor. And once her beautiful song has done and looks like a beautiful girl, she screams and reveals her true identity,” “
Said Murray.
The Australian Sand Sculpting Championships were held in Frankston, Victoria. ((Delivered))
Held on the Frankston Waterfront in Victoria, this year marked the return of the championships after an interruption of six years.
For this year, the 25 -year anniversary, the theme was “The Villains of Story Time”.
Murray said the competition was physically debilitating.
“We have three days to work on the image, and it is very physically and mentally tiring,” she said ABC Radio Hobart Breakfast.
Murray said her hands were swollen and her body “a little physically beaten up” of the event.
‘You have to work quickly and hard, and the time pressure. Another day would do that [have been] sweet. “
Meg Murray says that the sculpture of sand is physically demolished. ((Delivered: N Hughes Media))
She said that working with sand was a challenge, “because sometimes you might be in a moment where something doesn’t work and you have to go with the power and go quickly … it’s all about quickly thinking.”
To help her penetrate the hard work at a rapid pace under a tight deadline, Murray said she followed a strict protein -rich diet.
“I didn’t eat carbohydrates all the time. I ate eggs and a large protein and a lot of water and a little fruit almost every day and a large protein,”
she said.
Sand came for gigantic sculptures
Although the championships were held on a beach, the sculptures were not made with beach sand, which explained Murray, lacked the power to stay upright and give details.
Instead, the participants use the sand of a builders. It is packed and stacked in boxes until the desired height is reached, so that a solid block of sand is formed.
“So you cut in the sand, don’t build the sand. You cut in to reveal what you want to reveal, a bit like rock,”
Said Murray.
The sculptures are cut into the sand of builders. ((Delivered: N Hughes Media))
She described the process as simple and fast, but also “very forgiving” when a mistake is made because it is possible to “add things back”.
Eventually she said that Zandsculpting was about quickly thinking and being adjustable.
One of the entries, the triumph of the Berg Olympus. ((Delivered: N Hughes Media))
While Murray is currently enjoying a well -deserved break, she thinks about where she wants her Sand Sculpting Journey to bring her afterwards.
“I would like to do worldwide. So I just think I will request some of them for the next summer,” she said.
The sculptures will continue to be seen until 27 April on the waterfront of Frankston.
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