International Peace Belt

photo by S. Smith Patrick

I had the honor to be selected as an artist with the International Peace Belt Project. This is a hand made chain link belt adorned with precious stones and coins from all over the world that is worn by an artist while they create and artwork. It has been worn by dancers, painters, musicians, and on this day I wore it (as a bandoleer) while raking a prayer mandala on the beach near San Francisco.

The belt is a part of the organization Artists for World Peace, which is a humanitarian group that brings needed services to communities around the world. The belt, charged with the energy of whichever artist it has been with then goes with the team to the areas where the humanitarian programs are being done. Its an amazing organization with a beautiful spirit and goal.

The day I did my artwork was filmed and will be combined with documentation of the other artists involved.

photo by S. Smith Patrick

'Substructures' - Public Demonstration Artwork

I'm pulling this up from the archives...

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It's been a while since I last did a public art-making in San Francisco and wow- what a great day to do it. A huge crowd gathered to watch the process on a gorgeous, sunny afternoon. My buddy Jonathan Clark made a film of the event that is really well done!

[Update: this was the first collaboration between Jonathan and I and since then we've traveled to several countries and made many more videos and tons of amazing photos.]

Mini Doc for Uplift Entertainment

I was profiled for the cable station Uplifting Entertainment, a station that focuses on- yep, you guessed it- uplifting content. I appreciate its uptempo yet calm pacing and I like that I am speaking energetically and not ponderously (I can get pretty critical of how I come across when speaking). I'm even happy about the design I did (though there weren't shots that showed the whole thing from higher up- I suppose those didn't turn out so well). The crew was a joy to work with and I thank them for creating a lovely clip that I am psyched to share!

Andres Amador, Earthscape Artist from eBreezy Media on Vimeo.

Playa Painting Aerial Zoom- 'Shine'

This artwork was made for our boy, Kavi Vayu, who had not yet been born (he's one month old today!). We dedicated it to him as a message that could serve him throughout life. In it we depict a mandala within a circle. There are many other circles floating about, each of which, it is inferred contains its own mandala. The visible mandala is sending out rays of energy which touch and spread out amongst the other circles. It signifies how each of us is the mandala sending out our energy into the world, illuminating and affecting all those around us. The best we can do in this life is to be the powerful expression of whomever we are. This is a visual representation of that idea.

Playa Painting- Mussels II

A gorgeous morning in SF and the largest crowd I have yet had witness me in action. At one point I heard a loud ruckus from above and looked up to see that a jogger and her dog had run through the piece and was being loudly boo'ed. I have long ago stopped stressing about clueless beach goers trampling the canvas. But I must admit it felt vindicating- that others were feeling protective of what I was making.

'Mesh' at Allomere Falls Video Flyover

Here is a brief flyover of the piece done at the awesome Allomere Falls in southern Point Reyes Park where the waterfall is spilling out onto the beach- epic! I had attempted to do a fly-in from the ocean but turned out I wasn't recording(!) That would have been awesome. But there's this for now...

'Mesh' at Allomere Falls, Point Reyes

An incredible location for my first hike-in playa painting. Allomere Falls is a seasonal waterfall that exits right on to the beach. And a beautiful and very suitable beach it turned out to be (we had no idea what to expect).  Work had to be done quickly, so I chose an uncomplicated design. For scale, Ember is the speck in the upper right portion of the beach.

Playa Painting at Allomere Falls, Point Reyes

'Substructures III'

Hi friends. Its been a winter of incubation and and gestation. Many exciting doors opening themselves.

The art off the beach test went really well and showed the opportunities revealed by my new quadcopter.

This image is from a test run on the beach getting used to the equipment. On two previous days I discovered my copter battery was dead- missing the chance to photograph two enormous designs, as big or larger than the one here.

Relying on the tech is a little anxiety inducing. As it draws me further from the cliff-side overlook with the promises of capturing a larger tableau, the more reliant I become on it working well- the more variables enter the equation. Such as piloting the copter in windy conditions in such a way that there is good framing of the scene-in the meantime the copter battery last less than 10 minutes.

Earthscape art in the field

I'm so excited! New directions are opening up to me.

For one, this photo shows my first piece made of grass and straw!  For scale I'm in the right upper corner looking up.

Also, the image came from a first run at photographing with my new quadcopter. I'll post about it- so cool!

Can't wait to do more of these.

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