Jim Denevan is a Santa Cruz, CA-based artist who makes freehand temporary drawings in sand using only a stick and a rake. Working up to seven hours and walking long distances to work on his drawings, Denevan completed what has been identified as the largest human-made art on earth.
Located in Nevada, this drawing is three miles across, and it reportedly took 100 of miles of walking to draw the pattern.
Denevan, who is a chef by profession, creates simple geometric figures in the dry sand as a kind of temporary sculpture. Many of his drawings are done by the water and they are then, sadly, washed away by the rising tides.
100 Mile Drawings in the Sand
World's Largest Human-Made Art by Jim Denevan
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