Those who visited La Cantería beach in Órzola last week found a design composed of dozens of circles of different sizes, which do not correspond to a natural phenomenon, but to the return of the British artist Simon Turner.
Turner, a resident of the island since 2019, chooses beaches in Lanzarote and other islands of the archipelago as canvases to create his land-art style artworks. And now, after a year away from his creative work due to health problems, he has returned.
Specifically, it was on January 25 when he returned to the beaches "after a long time fighting against depression", as he announced on his social networks.
Ephemeral artworks
The artist has been covering the surface of beaches in the Canary Islands for about four years with large geometric figures: most of them with spherical shapes, although with his strokes on the sand he also makes compositions with triangles and squares.
His works are ephemeral art because they barely last a few hours, after which the rising tide erases the traces of his artistic expression.
This taste for round shapes came from his previous job as a jeweler in Saltaire, an industrial colony from the Victorian era in the city of Bradford, located in the west of the British county of Yorkshire.
There he used recycled objects for his pieces, such as rubber tires from bicycle wheels. In his bracelets he made circles cut out in memory of the rubber of the two-wheeled vehicles.
Now, years after that, he includes beaches such as La Cantería, La Garita, El Jabillo, Playa Grande and El Reducto, plus many others from the rest of the islands, in his artistic journey, where he has drawn circles on the sand that the tide then erases.
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