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PARK OF COLORED SAND 2009

Plywood board, 60 tons of colored sand, 1500x1100x150 cm (50’x35’x5’)
Festival Transform 2009, bank of Wisla River, Warsaw.

Park of Colored Sand was opened on 24th of July 2009 in Warsaw Poland on the bank of Wisla River and was accessible for everyone. In the beginning idea was to put a little sandy park among buildings. Later idea of colored sand arouse as a distinctive and interactively structured element by viewers who could walk preferably barefoot on it.  Viewers walking through the space mix the colors on the edges where colorful spots meets so slowly structure of colorful spots changed. Between yellow and blue sand greenish and between blue and red violet sand came into being.
Park was utilized for rest and just enjoying good weather.
Lower parts of these elements had been used as benches. Park was very popular among people of different ages – from kids to elderly persons. People played with forms and colors of sand builds elaborated patterns, and sculptures, which later were for example utilized as a background for photographs or just for fun. Form of a park based on simple solution enabled people to play with color of a sand stimulated their imaginary, also was braking borders among participants who all together were playing with sand.
Project was finished on last day of October 2009 and within radius of at least one kilometer colored sand was spread all over around the location.

 The origin of the project is the one which was designed for empty spots between buildings in industrial town Barrow in Furness in Cumbria, UK. While the vicinity of the town is very beautiful (Lake District) and very interesting peninsula with vast areas flooded by tide with glorious and relatively unspoiled coastline town itself is rather uninteresting from the first sight with a large quantity of industrial sheds built relatively quickly since 60 ties of XIX century when First Industrial Revolution took place. Since then town has a strong shipyard where warships are still produced today. Town lives it’s slow and regular cycle, there is not too much of cultural life there. In the beginning idea was to put a little sandy park among buildings because of that beautiful natural surroundings around severe industrial town.
Project can be considered also with use of a plain sand only.

 

 

PARK Z KOLOROWEGO PIASKU
FESTIWAL TRANSFORM lipiec-wrzesień 2009
Warszawa, Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie nad Wisła, nieopodal Mostu Świętokrzyskiego.

 

Na początku ideą było zrobienie małego parku wykonanego przy użyciu naturalnego piasku pośrodku industrialnego nadmorskiego miasta Barrow In Furness w UK, czyli stworzenie jakby plaży pośrodku miasta. Następnie przyszedł pomysł użycia kolorowego piasku, jako dystynktywnego i jednocześnie interaktywnego elementu. Widzowie chodząc po parku, najlepiej na boso, mieszają kolory zwłaszcza na styku kolorowych plam piasku tak, że pojawią się jego nowe kolory. Np. na styku czerwonego z niebieskim powstanie fiolet, piasek żółty zmieszany z czerwonym da kolor pomarańczowy itp. Z biegiem czasu dojdzie do wymieszania się piasku i zatracenia intensywności plam kolorowego piasku.
Projekt będzie połączeniem elementów rzeźbiarskich wykonanych z wodoodpornej sklejki oraz naturalnego i barwionego piasku. Elementy wykonane ze sklejki składające się z warstw uformowanych jedna nad drugą, rozdzielają płaszczyzny kolorowego piasku organizując przestrzeń parku. Ich niższe elementy mogą być używane, jako rodzaj ław do siedzenia.
Ideałem byłoby gdyby elementy z warstw także wykonano z piasku z odpowiednim spoiwem. Daleką reminiscencją dla projektu jest hipisowska kultura Dzieci Kwiatów.

Adam Kalinowski 2009

Links:
http://www.2b.art.pl/index.php?LANG=pl&struct=29_3&art_ID=432

Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNNfsmu3ZTY