Puerto Escondido, a port located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, has always been famous for its surfing. The huge waves always make surfers from all over the world excited and come with their surfboards to challenge nature. In addition, the rich culture here also attracts many artists and craftsmen to come and realize the inspiration in their heads.
French artist Samuel Boutruche is no exception. With the help of forty students, he recreated the lunar surface where Russias Lunar 17 landed. He dug holes one after another, large and small, and then painted five lines. A 50-meter-long track for an alternative "Moon Run" competition.
Boutruche believes that beach meansConflicting interests between defenders of nature and developers, as well as the struggle between public space and private land, should we develop or maintain the status quo? Should conservation or economic interests come first? No one is an outsider in the face of this difficult question. . And this piece of sand has become a buffer zone between the over-exploited earth and the ocean that still contains many unknowns.
In order to express the challenges that the whole world is facing, Boutruche decided to turn the most common leisure sport on the beach into a moon race. On the one hand, through sports competitions, it arouses everyone to gather on the beach together; On the other hand, it can be mixed with traditional sand castles to reshape the local natural landscape.
