Land artist Jim Denevan has created another crazy-huge piece of sand art.
Denevan traveled to the middle of the Mojave Desert’s Lucerne Dry Lake last Friday to produce a sand-and-water portrait of Echo, an alien character three friends find stranded on Earth in Relativity’s new summer family movie “Earth to Echo.” The 700,000 square foot portrait lasted an entire eight hours before being swept away by the elements.
The 52-year old Californian is no stranger to producing larger than life works of art; in 2010, he was commissioned by retail brand Anthropologie to draw an intricate series of concentric rings in the ice of frozen Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia. (It's the world’s largest single artwork, spanning an area of nine square miles.) Denevan developed his talent twenty years ago, when he would pause during bike rides along the beach to sketch pictures in the sand with a stick. He now uses GPS to scale the patterns that he draws over various landscapes.
In the movie that inspired the artwork, a trio of middle schoolers investigate a series of weird signals on their phones and discover Echo, an alien that’s crashed on Earth. They then make it their mission to protect Echo and help him find his way back home. It's definitely a movie you can catch with the family. Earth to Echo releases tomorrow.
