I wanted a lot of people to see it, but the piece is really best when there are just one or two people watching it happen. Everybody was standing around it, waiting for some huge dust storm. But it’s far more Zen, it happens over time: Little piles of sand make ripples and waves and little dunes. It takes hours. It’s not a crowd-pleaser, not like a football game.

Alice Aycock.

Alice Aycock, Sand Fans (1971)

Installation at Salomon Contemporary Warehouse, East Hampton, NY, 2008