The great pyramids … of Cowell Beach? Hundreds emerged in the sand this week in a public art installation created with hands-on involvement from Santa Cruz area residents.
The project, which can be seen through Sunday or until it’s eroded by the weather or other factors, is a collaboration between internationally known outdoor artist Jim Denevan and son Brighton Denevan and hundreds of local volunteers as part of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s CommonGround festival.
“So the pyramids you see are the same angle as the Great Pyramid of Egypt,” Jim Denevan told Lookout. “There’s 32 concentric circles, and there’s 16 rings from the center, so they all grow in a ratio from the middle, kind of like the head of a sunflower.”
Denevan is a Santa Cruz native who started out “drawing in the sand” before what he does was recognized as an art form.
“It’s taken me all over the world,” he said. “[It] has evolved into an obsession with making sand art over the years. Many countries do commissions. But this is interesting, because I’m back to my own hometown.”
Denevan’s work has been on display in places ranging from Miami Beach and New York City to Canada, Spain, Italy and the United Arab Emirates.
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