Footprints In The Sands - Playa Del Carmen
by Mark Tisdale
Title
Footprints In The Sands - Playa Del Carmen
Artist
Mark Tisdale
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
Like many of us, one of my favorite activities on the beach is walking in the shallow water at the edge of the beach. I love feeling the retreating waves of the sea over my feet and the compacted appearance of the sand afterward.
As I was walking on the sands of Playa del Carmen on my last day there, I happened to look down and see this perfectly captured footprint in the sand. I loved the transitory nature of it. Like a flower that will be gone later but perhaps even shorter as the next wave took it away. Some of the most beautiful things are truly fleeting don't you think?
I loved the textures of the sand, the small pebbles and the slightly golden light casting shadows into the deeper parts of the footprint. There was just a simplicity of the moment that I had to stop and capture knowing full well in a moment it would be gone. And in a strange way, that reminds me of my own transitory connection with the beach. I don't know that I'll ever live near one never mind on one, but I love visiting. I love living in those moments and then, they are gone and life returns to its old pace.
And this footprint on the sand will be a souvenir far longer than the moment it appeared on that beach sand in Mexico.
If you would like to see more of my Mexican artwork, be sure to search for "Mexico" over on tisdaleart.com
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July 2nd, 2013
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