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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 17288196" data-attributes="member: 158020">-Layered Sand Art- The art in these bottles were created by carefully pouring colored  sand in layers, without the use of glue or any adhesive. These were made  more than a hundred years ago by Iowa-born artist Andrew Clemens (1856 -  1894), who was completely deaf and mute, a condition that developed  when he suffered from encephalitis at the young age of five. Clemens'  sandpainting career blossomed at the age of 13 during his summer  vacations from the State School. He would collect naturally colored  grains of sand from an area in Pikes Peak State Park known as Pictured  Rocks, separate the sand grains into piles, by color, and used them to  form the basis for his art. Clemens inserted the colored grains of sand  into small glass drug bottles using fishing hooks and hickory sticks. He  used no glue, relying on pressure from the other sand grains alone to  held the artwork together. Once the artwork was complete, he sealed the  bottle with a stopper and wax. Sometimes, Clemens created his images  upside down. Upon completion, he would securely stopper the bottle, and  flip it right side up. The most complex of his designs could take up to a  year to complete. As his fame grew, Clemens’ sand bottles began to be displayed in  museums and exhibitions, and he started receiving commissions from  buyers. At that time his artworks sold for $5–7. Today, they are worth  tens of thousands of dollars. During his lifetime, it is thought that  Clemens produced hundreds of his sand bottles but few survive today.    Although  decorating bottles by layering colored sand is a fun activity these  days, there is barely another man who has been able to reproduce Andrew  Clemens’ art form with that level of intricacy. It is believed that  Andrew Clemens is the inventor and possibly the sole practitioner of his  art form. <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-MINAkgxgLzA/VEX_7fab6DI/AAAAAAAA8ao/ioJY7-Bq4xQ/Andrew-Clemens-sand-art-2%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-J3XOgga0W4E/VEX_9nRsRYI/AAAAAAAA8aw/h-5KHNrOYdU/Andrew-Clemens-sand-art-3%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-z5HZxe456FY/VEX__0FYGFI/AAAAAAAA8a4/n6mNMnWGE1A/Andrew-Clemens-sand-art-4%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wMBKDiRev0w/VEYABjFyBuI/AAAAAAAA8bA/Odc59SjfGtI/Andrew-Clemens-sand-art-5%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-lx2tLWp9bUE/VEYAD9z2VaI/AAAAAAAA8bI/gfV4rZS5Dos/Andrew-Clemens-sand-art-6%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Vib0pbzByEk/VEYAGtOEK0I/AAAAAAAA8bQ/c_BsZgn1gX0/Andrew-Clemens-sand-art-9%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-MmDixBQ9f2E/VEYAIGs0bTI/AAAAAAAA8bY/8v-M0GMMymw/Andrew-Clemens-sand-art-7%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-GU4ANCbNXr4/VEYAKJCSwqI/AAAAAAAA8bg/Sa8XQLMaGSo/Andrew-Clemens-sand-art-8%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-zfqNnx1rjI8/VEYAL2Jj7WI/AAAAAAAA8bo/OLWTBTp68Jc/Andrew-Clemens-sand-art-1%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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