The Swiss Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), which has the title of a sacred temple in the graphic design world, proposes a special plan to its members every year and invites members to create. This year, well-known artist, designer and typeface designer Marian Bantjes contributed a beautiful sand painting called Coexistence. Bantjes used sand and dust collected from South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, New Mexico, California and other places in the United States. Under this layer of meaning, this sand painting actually has a religious and magical effect that makes people feel calm.
Overlooking the whole picture, the folk custom totem of Coexistence also looks like a beautiful Persian carpet
Yes, many people who have seen Coexistence will think of Tibetan sand paintings, or simpler Tibetan sand paintings. After all, the materials used in Coexistence are all sand from the earth, and the colors are simple and not so bright, but Bantjes himself I think this statement is too commendable. After all, Tibetan sand painting has a high artistic and religious status, and Bantjes himself did not even have special skills when he created it, he just arranged the totems based on the intuition in his mind!
Because Bantjes did not glue the sand on, after the shooting, the sand really returned to dust, earth to earth, reaching the highest state of returning to the earth. Although it is a pity, it would not be a bad thing if the blank left by the departure of these sands can accumulate more energy for the next creation~
