Nkandla comes to Sedgefield
“This year we saw exceptional technique during the Slow Festival Sand Sculpture Competition,” said organiser Mark Dixon.
He was referring to the sand sculptures produced on Myoli Beach on Sunday, April 20, as part of this year’s Slow Festival.
Nine teams put their heads together and transformed grains of sand into works of art. Some sculptures definitely had more humour than technique involved, such as the Nkandla sculpture produced by the Social Commentary team.
The categories ranged from cartoon; fantasy; beach wash-up; animals and social awareness. By noon the beach was adorned with nine beautiful sculptures.
These included a well-endowed mermaid, Dumbo the elephant, a pyramid and a sphinx, an octopus, crocodile and a sea monster. As frivolous as the Nkandla sculpture was, as serious was the Boeing sculpture made in memory of flight 370, which disappeared while flying over the ocean.