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Land art on a beach in South Africa just before Youth Day 2009. Made of shells, sand and the tide.

It was very interesting to watch people from a distance – they would be running in play until they see the shell wall, then walk around it carefully.

Except for the children, of course, who would run around and around inside the circle.

After a day in the sun, watching these shells, I was rather surprised by how painful it was to witness the tide washing the work away.

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Electronic Circuits

This altered book was created in 2006 for our one-year anniversary. The traditional gift for one year is paper, and I reckoned a book is a collection of papers.

Because we met at university (we both studied Electrical Engineering) an old textbook was appropriate to begin with. I added odes to our adventures together… so far.

Of course, it was only much later that I discovered the brilliance of artists such as Brian Detmer. He manages to transform the book into something completely different – taking the concept of "altering" very literally.

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