Recently while writing my post on Sand Sculpturing, I tried searching some authentic quotes and good pictures,  and met probably one of the greatest master of this craft, Paul and his cute wife Remy.

Paul & Remy : Official Brief

“We, Remy and Paul, are a couple who work and travel together, we are both master sand sculptors with a combined experience of 27 years in creating sand sculptures. Remy (38) is Dutch and Paul me (43) is English. We met in a huge sand sculpture park in Belgium in the summer of 2003 and have been inseparable ever since.

“Of course we still make time for our biggest passion in life: creating

Palu & Remy's sand Queen sitting pretty

Remy & Paul at China

Sculptures with a message

“We work very well together, we complement each other qualities and ‘dance’ around our sculptures; we work in layers over each other’s work until the statue is finished. We aim to create sculptures with a message; the ideas for these come to us often intuitive or in our dreams. Together we create sometimes magical sculptures that are more than the sum of both our input, then we step back, look at each other and ask surprised ‘did we do this?’

Spiritualizing Sand

Paul tells me a strange fact about the sand sculpturing they practice, “When we create we often get into a meditative state that we call ‘the sand zone’ in which we forget about time and are enjoying ourselves immensely. During the process of creation we always take a moment to concentrate on one grain of sand, and to ’spiritualize’ this grain, we believe that this way we bring our sculptures to life. We call this ’spiritualizing matter’. When this is successful a sculpture can all of a sudden ‘look back at us’, or from the corner of our eye seem to move. Together we create sometimes magical sculptures that are more than the sum of both our input, then we step back, look at each other and ask surprised ‘did we do this?’

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