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2007 Chachoengsao 2007

Monday, October the 15th I'm in Thailand, one hour driving from Bangkok in the place called Chachoengsao. This project is dedicated to the kings 80th birthday. It takes me four and a half day to make the sculpture of the story by Soonthornpoo (above). The sand contains a lot of clay and stones, so every sculpture is veneered with a thin layer of sifted sand, This cost a lot of extra time!

Chachoengsao - Wat Sothorn temple

From Friday on I start helping Kevin Crawford (Aus) and Martijn Rijerse (Holland) with the Wat Sothorn temple. The real temple is very near to the place where we are working. My part has roughly been blocked out before I come to help. I'm making the left side of the temple according to what Kevin is making on the right.

Chachoengsao - New York

On Monday the 22 of October I start with " The New York skyline and the statue of liberty ". I finish 3 layers in one day. In one week I finish the hole sculpture.

Chachoengsao - New York

Detail; The 5th day I need 4 stitches in my feet because I cut myself on a steel wire.

2007 Travemunde 2007

On the 25th of June 2007 me and Charlotte start working on the mirror hall from Versaille. It takes us 7 days to finish. Monday the second of July I start working on the right group of people standing in the ball room of Versaille. The top of this sculpture is a mirror from the sculpture on the left made by Hansje.

Travemunde - Sint Pieter church

July the 5th I make the relief in the background (left). This drawing is actually stretched to compensate the fact that the picture is drawn in a slope. From July the 6th till the 8th I work with Charlotte on the model from the Sint Pieter church. The story behind this scene is that the architect in the middle picture is suggesting the pope to build this church.

2006 Travemunde 2006

Monday june the 26th the sand project in Travemunde started, the theme was Circus. I made a poster of Dan Rice (1823-1901)

After 5 day's this soft pack was finished.

On june the first I started with this trailer, In 3 days it was finished.

Travemunde - tent

On july the 4th I started with the eight houses in the village, first I worked together with Jeroen van der Vlag and after that with Joost. They made the houses on the left side. In 4 days the village was finished. Then Joost and I completed the tent Hanneke started, she also made the balloons above this tent. Joost and I finished the tent in less then 2 days.

2006 Great Yarmouth 2006

On june the 5th 2006 I drove from Brighton to Great Yarmouth. June the 6th I started carving in Great Yarmouth. Together with Joost I made a sculpture from the Trojan horse. This was the highest piece of the park. After 5 days the horse in hard pack was finished. After that we worked for 7 day's in the soft pack underneath the horse.

The sculptures place in the park.

Joost (right) and me (left).

2006 Brighton 2006

temple of Saturn

temple of Saturn

The romans were the theme of the sand sculpture event in England/ Brighton 2006.
On the 22th of may I started working on the arch of Titus. I finished this one in 6 days. After that I started the temple of Saturn. The sculpture consists out of two relief's. On one side the temple is shown in the time when it was build and on the other side you can see the temple during the downfall of the roman empire. This sculpture was finished in 4 days. Then I started building the roman bath together with Joost. We finished this one in 4 days. Foot's form the bath can be found down here.

2006 Brighton 2005

The theme of the first Sand-sculpture Festival in England/ Brighton is Egyptian times.
I arrived in Brighton on the 10th of july and stayed there for one week. In this week I build the obelisk with the snake around it.

2005 Travemunde 2005

The theme of the Travemunde Sand-sculpture Festival 2005 is fairy tale.
I worked together with Issabelle on the fairy tale Rapunzel. We build this tower including the prince that felt down in two weeks. We started building on the 27th of June and we finished it on sunday the 10th of july.

The prince was made in 3 days.

The relief on the left was made in one day

The flowers and a big part of the wall behind it were made in one day.

2004 Zhoushan 2004

The theme of the sixth China Zhoushan International Sand-sculpture Festival is 'Western love'. I arrived in China on the 16th of september. In the first picture you can see the view from my sculpture. In the center of third picture you can see the place of my sculpture.

Here you can see the Golden Sands Holiday Hotel on the Zhujianjian Island where we stayed

The sand sculpture by night. We left China after two weeks on the first of october.

2004 Travemunde 2004

The rain had destroyed the sand sculptures, so in week 31 I returned to Germany to help repair the damaged. In one day I also made this new head.

I made this girl in one day.

2004 Thorn 2004

The theme is cowboys and Indians. The entrance to the poker room and the door from the blacksmith. I worked together with Joe and Robert.

The interior of the bar. The curtain I made together with Joost.

I build this covered wagon together with Joost and michel.

Covered wagon with huge exhaust pipe!

And a rocket propulsion system.

covered wagon

covered wagon

2004 Travemunde 2004

The theme was the Olympic games. On this wall you can see three relief's of old Greek sports; throwing the javelin, wrestling and running. The wall is made by Tineke Marijn and me in one week.

This relief is made by Tineke.

Relief

Relief

This Japanese temple is made by Tineke and me in one week.

In the background you can see the hotel where we stayed during the project.

Japanese temple

2004 Scheveningen 2004

In 2004 I attended the sand sculpture festival on Scheveningen.
The theme was The Lion King. I joined team 8 in front of the "Arc van Noach". On the left you can see the sketch that I made before we started the sculpture. The three animals in the front are made by me. On this sculpture I worked together with two other persons called Jeroen and Sandra en Marijn.

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