“Aeolian sand-ripples at Southbourne”, a photograph from Vaughan Cornish’s Waves of Sand and Snow (1914).
Featured on PDR in the essay The Dust That Measures All Our Time
From the mythical Sandman, who participates in dream and vision, to an irritating grain lodged in the beachgoer’s eye, sand harbours unappreciated power, however mundane. Steven Connor celebrates this “most untrustworthy” type of matter.
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Aeolian Sand-Ripples at Southbourne
Artist
Date
1914
From
Waves of Sand and Snow
