Land art in the snow: a short-lived art

A professional cartographer Simon Beck is engaged in a creative hobby. The Englishman creates amazing pictures. But not on canvas, like most artists, but on real snow. A craftsman using skis instead of a brush leaves incredible geometric patterns on the snow-covered areas. Before starting work, Simon creates a visualization of the project in a computer program. Then he leaves marks on the snow, which he guides when walking on skis.

The artist's creations are impressive in size. Some are comparable to two or five soccer fields. To create such a land art requires serious physical training. Beck's relatively small jobs take at least 6 hours. The author works on large-scale projects for several days. To create complex patterns, spirals and regular geometric shapes, Simon takes up to 5000 thousand steps per hour in knee-deep snow.

Simon's land art resembles mysterious fractals located in fields around the world. But according to the artist, the sand and stone gardens on the territory of the temples of Kyoto became the inspiration for such creativity.

The main drawback of Simon's drawings is their fragility. Any change in the weather can spoil or completely "erase" the snow masterpiece: be it wind, snowfall or sudden warming. So that fans of creativity can contemplate the "snow" art, Simon takes photographs, which he exposes for all to see on social networks.

Winter has already come into its own, which means you too can create something similar when the snow falls. You can buy skis and other sports equipment for this purpose in this section.