When things collapse Damon Langlois rebuilds.

The seasoned artist from View Royal embraces the unpredictable world of sand sculpting, where each masterpiece is vulnerable to the whims of weather and nature.

His latest endeavour documents the resilience and creativity required to overcome massive destruction.

Rebuilding is 91裸聊视频渏ust something that91裸聊视频檚 in the DNA of a sand sculptor,91裸聊视频� he said.

91裸聊视频淲hat makes a sand sculptor is really the ability to stare down risk and abject failure and embarrassment. Anybody who has had something go wrong and it affects them they quit.91裸聊视频�

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Langlois is a five-time world champion in sand sculpting, designer of the tallest sandcastle with the Sand Sculpture Company in 2015, creator of Liberty Crumbling, the most shared sand sculpture on the internet, and has won the Canadian Open in Parksville multiple times.

No destruction stands out more in his storied career than when he was artistic director for a monumental immersive sculpture project in the heart of Kuwait City.

A decade ago, 72 professional sand sculptors set out to carve 30,000 tonnes of sand into a small town. Halfway through the project, a rainstorm hit.

91裸聊视频淚t never rains in Kuwait, it91裸聊视频檚 the desert and we get taken out by a three-day storm,91裸聊视频� Langlois said. 91裸聊视频淲e knew this going in, it is just sand and water.91裸聊视频�

After the rains, the team did what came naturally, working more than 20,000 hours to complete the project. Although they lost the top four feet of the walk-through sand palace, it was still an impressive 52 feet when they finished.

As the 10th anniversary approached, Langlois revisited and refined the booklet concept.

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91裸聊视频淚t was a compulsion because here we91裸聊视频檇 made this masterpiece in the desert 91裸聊视频� the best sand sculptors in the world and we91裸聊视频檇 made this immersive sculpture park,91裸聊视频� he said. 91裸聊视频淥nly a handful of people only ever saw that or experienced that.91裸聊视频�

As part of the planning, he91裸聊视频檇 created 32 short stories based on original tales for each sculptor to work from and be inspired by.

91裸聊视频淚t was always sort of in my mind as a book,91裸聊视频� he said. 91裸聊视频淲hen you look at sand sculptures, most people only briefly look at them, go, 91裸聊视频榦h, that91裸聊视频檚 amazing,91裸聊视频� take a photograph, and move on.91裸聊视频�

In this project, his simplified versions of the tales would accompany the sculptors91裸聊视频� works 91裸聊视频� sort of like a program. Over the last decade, he91裸聊视频檚 fine-tuned the volume to 300 pictures and 32 shorter versions of the stories from the Arabian Nights, crafting a 276-page art and story book.

As a first step, he launched an online funding platform for Stories in Sand91裸聊视频擳he Arabian Nights, which hit its investor goal well ahead of the deadline.

91裸聊视频淭he next step from that is the key. I want a publisher to pick it up,91裸聊视频� he said. 91裸聊视频淚t needs to get out there.91裸聊视频漴e.91裸聊视频�

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