Thursday 24 September 2009

Andrew van der Merwe

Andrew van der Merwe, calligrapher and letterer from Cape Town, creates the most precise forms of sand lettering - they really are beautiful.

"Scratching in the sand with a stick, however, has proved less than satisfactory because it
makes more of a mess than a mark. This has led me, over the past seven years, to develop various instruments which mark the sand in less messy ways, and ultimately to a kind of scoop which leaves neat V-cut letters of the sort one gets in stone carving."

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