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a is an environmental public art project that takes 1,300 plus feet of beach
front and rakes it into a Zen garden of time.
Visitors wearing Walkmans stroll along the beach viewing the sculpted sand
while hearing the story of the universe starting from the big bang and ending at
the present. For many visitors this is the first introduction of the new
scientific cosmology based on the discovery of the Big Bang.
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sands .:. of
.:. time .:. also employs one of the first timelines that shows
time flowing from its origin at the Big Bang all the way to the present.
This performance piece graphically expresses the magnitude of scale
between the time elapsed (represented by the 1300 feet of beach) and the paltry
2000-plus years that we commonly consider to be of import (represented by a
single grain of sand).
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sands .:. of .:. time .:. suggests
that we should change our thinking to embrace the entire beach-length of time,
instead of focusing on a single grain of sand.
Production
History
Rodeo
Beach, Marin County, CA
13.7B 1998
Ocean
Beach, San Francisco, CA
13.7B 1998
Burning
Man, Black Rock Desert, NV
13.7B 1999
Santa
Monica Beach, Santa Monica, CA 13.7B 2000
Rodeo
Beach, Marin County, CA
13.7B 2002
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Big Bang
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