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New Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck snow land art geometric

New Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck snow land art geometric

New Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck snow land art geometric

New Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck snow land art geometric

New Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck snow land art geometric

New Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck snow land art geometric

New Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck snow land art geometric

New Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck snow land art geometric

New Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck snow land art geometric

New Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck snow land art geometric

New Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck snow land art geometric

Insanely ambitious and beautiful! Via Colossal:
Since 2004 England-based Simon Beck has strapped on a pair of snowshoes and lumbered out into the the freshly fallen snow at the Les Arcs ski resort in France to trample out his distinctly geometric patterns, footprint by footprint. Each work takes the 54-year-old artist anywhere between 6 hours and two days to complete, an impressive physical feat aided from years of competitive orienteering. The orienteering also helps him in the precise mapping process which often begins on a computer before he’s able to mark landmarks in the snow that guide his precise walking patterns. All of the works above (with the exception of the portrait) are from the last few weeks, you can see several years worth of work over on Facebook.


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Ben VanderVeen is the founder and editor of Moss & Fog, one of the web’s longest-running visual culture destinations. Since 2009, he’s been finding and framing the most beautiful, surprising, and thought-provoking work in art, architecture, design, and nature — reaching over 325,000 readers each month. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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