Mesmerizing Modernist Sandcastles By Calvin Seibert. These sculptures are not your average sand. He likes it so much that he has been sculpting sandcastles for the last 30 years.

His experimentation with sandcastles began hundreds and hundreds of miles away from an ocean but the love of the craft stuck with him.

This is an entirely different method from the elaborate sandcastles you see in competitions, which are actually made by building an enormous solid block of sand then carving into it like a sculptor does with a hunk of stone. As an illustrator and writer living in seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog brown paper bag and instagram. Building sandcastles is a bit of a test. Having to think fast and to bring it all.