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The radical sense of the tropics that some tourists look for, and hope for, can certainly be found on Sentosa Island. This island getaway is not only a major attraction for travelers from all over the world, it’s also a favorite spot for people who live in Singapore. It offers a wonderful break from the fast pace that the urban life there offers, and there are plenty of excellent attractions to choose from. If theme park with rides of every imaginable kind become too much, there’s always the beaches, and they are spectacular. They might inspire one to start building sandcastles, and that can make for some lovely afternoons.

The dream of building the largest sandcastle in the world doesn’t have to end with childhood either. And truthfully, the parents usually get into it more than the kids do, anyway, especially when it becomes clear that the good ones take time and patience, and perhaps even the eyes and hands of an artist. Most people who come to stay at the Sentosa Island hotels don’t have designs on making a living at it, but there are people all over the world that do. One of them is a native of Singapore, JOOheng Ten .

He got his big break in 1999, after doing it as a hobby for a few years. He’s been at the sand sculpture event of the year, Sandsation , a number of times, and his Shifting Sand exhibition moved here in March of 2010. He now has his own organization, Sandworkz , and a number of rather stunning achievements for an artist of 40 years of age. The work is complex, and enormously bold, and plays on the transitory nature of sand. It works as a metaphor in many of his works, but it always works as a lovely medium. The large and small sculptures are like mirrors of this world, evoking a sense of elsewhereness that is delightfully fragile and present all at once.

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