Jesolo International Sand Sculpture Festival
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2005
"HOLLYWOOD"
    In June 2005 on the Adriatic coast of Italy in the beautiful  City of Jesolo, Venice, the International Sand Sculpture Festival opens for the eighth season.
Take a look at the sculpture process for this years theme, Hollywood.
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City Of Jesolo Web Site

   As ever, we start with the beach being graded smooth, and a big circus style tent erected over the event site. We then install a temporary well point water pump. Then we have lots of clean (sifted) sand brought in with heavy equipment: A scoop shovel/excavator helps the laborers to lift the equipment up and  fill the one-half meter tall wooden forms a layer at a time with our custom sand as it is mixed with water. Each successive layer is packed with the gas powered machines called "Whacker Packers"  This filling of the forms and compacting it is a slow process, but an important aspect  It is crucial to make very solid and dense blocks of sand from which, the artists carve their masterpieces. The finished  "Pound-Ups" as they are called, are ready for the artists to remove the interlocking forms one level at a time from the top down in order to sculpt the compacted sand within. 

tent
Tent		 well
Well Points		 equipment
Heavy Equip		 forms
 Wood Forms		 sandnwater
Sand & Water		 packers
Lifting		 whacker
Whackers		 pu
A Single Pound-Up
   The labor process to prepare the pound-ups takes about a week.
 After the prep work, the Sultans Of Sand crew of carvers arrives from around the planet. This year we feature the work of several veterans on the team, and a few old friends recruited to work as associate Sultanates for the first time. The total team of twenty represents nine countries. In alphabetical order they are:
Mark Anderson of the United Kingdom;  Lars Borst- The Hague, Netherlands; Peter Busch Jensen of Copenhagen, Denmark; Katsuhiku Chaen  from Japan; Alexie Dyakov-. Moscow, Russia; Damon Farmer Kentucky, U.S.A.; Marjon Katerberg from Amsterdam, Holland; Vladimir Kuraev - Moscow Russia; Alan Matsumoto, Canadian by way of Virginia; Radek Zivney from the Czech Republic.
Conceptual designer and director Rich Varano
The Hollywood theme was broken into ten elements placed in a sequential order inside the tent. Each sculpture is rendered from about 38 Cubic meters of sand and is four meters tall The carving process takes ten days for the eleven artists and the eight helpers.
(Click the thumbnail images for more photos & info) 
 

mark
Mark		 lars
Lars		 Peter
Peter 		 Katsuhiku
Katsu		 alex
Alexie		 damon
Damon		 Marjon
Marjon		 vladimir
Vladimir		 alan
Alan		 radek
Radek		 rich
Rich
 

allie
Alessandra		 alice
Alice		 andre
Andre		 anna
Anna		 elena
Elena		 enrico
Enrico		 irene
Irenea		 marika
Marika		 vittorino
Vittorino
Once again, the Italian assistants from the Art Academy in Venice proved most valuable to have working with us.
Enthusiastic and able, they did everything from tote forms and shovel sand, to packing, sculpting, spraying, and fine tuning the pieces. GRAZIE RAGGAZI !

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