AGI: Coexistence

Each year, Alliance Graphique International (AGI) proposes a “special project” for its members to contribute to. This year it is a poster to say “Coexistence”.

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I collect dirt and sand from around the world. I’ve been collecting it for quite a few years, waiting for the right project to use it in. This is that right project.

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The dirt comes from South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, New Mexico, California, Georgia, the Philippines, France, Bowen Island, Galiano Island, and various other places I can’t remember right now. Everyone who has seen this mentions the Tibetan sand paintings. I’m not that practiced, and my sand is lumpy and uneven … and I can’t say I had Tibet in mind when I made this. Merely Coexistence.

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It’s not glued down, and of course when finished and photographed, it is gone.

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2015