Jim Denevan is an American artist known for vast, ephemeral drawings inscribed directly into sand, soil, or ice. Working with only a rake, stick, or his own footsteps, he creates geometric spirals, radiating circles, and intricate patterns that can stretch for miles. The works are temporary by design: tides erase them, winds scatter them, and seasons reclaim them.
Denevan’s practice treats land and body as co-authors. Each work is both monumental and fleeting, a choreography of walking and tracing that transforms ordinary landscapes into cosmic diagrams.
Images from Jim Denevan, Amusing Planet, Alchetron, and Frame Magazine.
