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Skryf’ the sand writer moves forward,
leaving a stream of letters behind him referring to the fact that everything is transitory. An almost irrelevant pile of sand creates the magic of the word.
Human beings, nature and the passage of time are responsible for the disintegration of the word again.
Like sand through your fingers .....
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Slowly moving backward, the sandwriter ‘Blom’ draws in the streets. 
Small buckets filled with coloured sand are placed close to the drawings so that everyone can colour them and add a personal touch.
Abandoned to their fate, the drawings will be destroyed by man, nature or time; only a memory will remain.
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​'Nyx' writes poetry in full darkness with illuminating powder. The audience reads the shining text very concentrated along the path. 
Nyx writes with a fine mixture of photoluminescent powder and special sand. The letters are illuminated with a ultraviolet light and charged to shine. 

> MORE INFO ABOUT NYX <
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'Scriptum' is the smallest one of the family. Especially build to fit in two suitcases it is easy to take on overseas travels. And so far it has travelled a lot. Amongst lots of other places it has left a poetry trail in Australia, China, Korea, USA and Russia. 
It can do writing as well as drawing up to a letter height of 1 meter. 

​> MORE INFO ABOUT SCRIPTUM <
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'Parallel Suspended' is the tallest
​(15m x 15m) writing machine so far. 
Suspended by 8 motor controlled winches the sandcontainer slowly works his way over the field. It has proven to be very mesmerizing to see how the drawing unfolds at a very absolute slow speed.

> MORE INFO ABOUT PARALLEL SUSPENDED< 
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Sandmachines can be booked through agency HHProducties:
www.hhproducties.nl
Kromme Leimuidenstraat 2, 1059 EM Amsterdam
Telefoon: + 31 20 4082504 , Fax: +31 20 4083650
E-mail: info@hhproducties.nl
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