Artist Simon Beck must really love the cold weather! Along the frozen
lakes of Savoie, France, he spends days plodding through the snow in
raquettes (snowshoes), creating these sensational patterns of snow art.
Working for 5-9 hours a day, each final piece is typically the size of
three soccer fields! The geometric forms range in mathematical patterns
and shapes that create stunning, sometimes 3D, designs when viewed from
higher levels.
How long these magnificent geometric forms survive is completely
dependent on the weather. Beck designs and redesigns the patterns as new
snow falls, sometimes unable to finish a piece due to significant
overnight accumulations. Interestingly enough, he said, 'The main reason
for making them was because I can no longer run properly due to
problems with my feet, so plodding about on level snow is the least
painful way of getting exercise. Gradually, the reason has become
photographing them, and I am considering buying a better camera.”
Spectacular art for the sake of exercise!
Simon Beck- Snow Art
"Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the
light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the
recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic
and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations
of these."
~Ansel Adams
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