Video: When dreams crash against reality. Sand Houses by Chad Wright
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In childhood and adulthood, we perceive the world around us as a whole and its individual details in completely different ways. As a visual demonstration of this difference, an American artist Chad Wright implemented an art project Master Plan, within the framework of which he created many sand castles in their "adult" version.
Children (and adults too) create absolutely magical buildings on the sand beaches that you can admire for hours. However, the reality of the construction and architecture market is at odds with these bold sand fantasies. It is about what happens when growing up, when dreams are shattered by the harsh everyday life of the world, that Chad Wright talks about in his Master Plan project.
Chad Wright created an entire sandy city on the shores of one of the beaches in Southern California. But this "settlement" is built up not with beautiful fairy-tale structures, castles and palaces, but with typical houses lined up in rows.
The artist even created a special plastic mold so that the process of creating sand structures was as fast as possible, and the houses produced in this way turned out to be as identical to each other as possible.
The American author in his project Master Plan contrasts the playful childhood experience with the gloomy modern reality, in which talent, imagination and individuality are not appreciated at all. And the waves of the ocean (this is a metaphor) easily destroy what was just as easily built.
Chad Wright says that in this project he reflected the story of his own childhood. After all, he lived in one of such typical houses, and in order to somehow escape from the gray reality, together with his brother, he created magic sand castles. But, unlike other similar dreamers, he continues to do this in the literal and figurative sense, even as an adult.
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