The International Sand Art Competition, this year with the theme of ‘Secrets of the Sea’ lasts seven days and features 10 artists including award-winning Indian. Pattnaik is fresh from winning first prize at the Copenhagen Sand Sculpture Contest in May, with a 2.5 metre high mermaid, with which the he intended to highlight climate change and ‘the threat to our seas’. “This will be my second appearance in Spain. When I participated here six years ago I won second prize,” he said, referring to the competition in Valladolid in 2003. “There are so many species living in the oceans of which people know very little. I will create a sculpture to raise for awareness,” said the 35-year-old, who started working with sand at the age of seven. His many previous sculptures include aids awareness pieces, of Michael Jackson, and a sculpture of 105 Santa Clauses and Christmas trees on the beach in his hometown of Puri – in which he used a thousand tons of sand.
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