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Claire Droppert’s Mid-Flight Sand Creatures

These gravity-defying snaps show abstract mid-air creatures, if only for a split second.

By Moss & Fog1 min read
This striking series by Claire Droppert shows abstract sand creatures in mid-flight, momentarily appearing, before gravity takes over and brings them back to the ground. She expresses her interest in the way the forms can be interpreted as lifeforms, if only for a moment. Via Behance:

“Sand comes alive and creatures are born in frozen moments of weightlessness…”

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‘”Sand Creatures” are captured on beaches in Holland, and contain landscape, natural elements and zero gravity. The Sand Creatures series focuses on nature in an unexpected way. The explosive and at times powdery scenes of the grainy sand being thrown into the air can be taken as a manifesting life form, and they become sand creatures. ‘

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