This is not my favourite type of job but it helps pay the bills. Doing commercial work which has very little creative freedom can be a bit soul destroying and in some ways it can feel a little like prostitution. For me, I really don't mind, I have no airs and graces when it comes to work. I have shoveled enough shit (literally, when I worked in a dog kennel) to think that I'm too good for any job. I've worked as a kitchen porter, washing dishes on a conveyor belt and operated a drilling rig while standing up to my knees in cow shit in the middles of the pouring rain. A job is a job but I always strived for a better one. Luckily I found a job I have a passion for and only rarely do I have to do things which feel like work like this one.
As my mother always said ' If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well' so even if I have to make something ugly it has to be the best ugly I can do with what I have to work with.
Sex sells
Or does it? There have been a few times when I've worked on a project and they get some girls in to brighten up the photo shoot. These models usually seem really out of place to me and I wonder does it actually work to get attention.
Did you click on the thumbnail of this post for the girls or did you find the handsome guy in the photo so irresistible that you just had to see more? Yes, I thought so.
These poor girls with their fantastic faces and bodies are no match for me, whatever your sexual orientation.
Jasus! where am I going with this post? It started off one way and then it went another. I suppose when it comes to a project like this, a couple of hours on the beach in the sweltering heat and my mind turns to mush even writing about it.
The sculpture itself hasn't got much about it to document. It was just a copy of a Logo handed to me and asked to be reproduced on Banna beach, Ireland for some Tag Rugby game thingy in a couple of hours.
What's the point
I had been thinking that I could conflate and juxtapose the fact that these girls and I do a very similar job. We just attract attention and as we all know the attention economy is a big buzz phrase at the moment. These lasses and I are just using the talents we have to get more eyes to peer the clients direction. Of course, although the three of us would rather be in bed, (Separate beds obviously) than be part of this silly photo shoot on a beach in Kerry we are professionals and will do whatever is needed to put bread on our plates and leave the customer satisfied but I think I lost that somewhere along the way.
Maybe that last paragraph is enough to get my point across and maybe I should just quit while I'm ahead.
Look, lets just move along and I promise you the next sculpture and post will be better. For now here's another image of of who you came here to see.
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Thanks for reading. I use PeakD to document my work as an ephemeral Sculptor of sand, snow and ice, amongst other things. This will hopefully give it a new life on the Hive Blockchain. Below you will find some of my recent posts.
Annagassan Viking - sand sculpture
Roller-Coaster - sand sculpture
Oxfam Climate change sand video
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