DRY NET BEACH

Acrylic on Canvas 30 x 55 cms Varnished

 

Sand,of course, is not a liquid.

There was no reason,therefore, to expect it to be buoyant. If one were to toss something on it with a lesser gravity, say a cork stopper, and leave it there, even the cork would sink. A boat that would float on sand would have to possess much different qualities. It could be a house shaped like a barrel, for example, which could pitch and toss. Even if it heaved over a little, it would shed whatever sand had fallen on it and rise at once to the surface. Of course people could not live on such a boat revolving all the time. Thee would have to be  a double barrel arrangement on an axis, so that the bottom of the inner barrel would always have a fixed point of gravity. The inner one would remain steady: only the outer would turn. A house that would move like the pendulum of a great clock.....a cradle house.....a desert ship.

excerpt from : the woman in the dunes  :by KOBO ABE

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 CRAB SHELL SANDS

Acrylic Pigment Pastel on Canvas 76 x 76 cms

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