Andorra
Sand Origin
Close to church Sant Cerni de Nagol, outside Sant Julià de Lòria
Note from Collector: “The sand is mixed with probable shale and some fragments of small rocks. It’s from the Silurian period. Near the collection point is a beautiful Romanic church called Sant Cerni de Nagol. In Andorra we have mainly Paleozoic rocks (a bit metamorphosed: schists, phyllites, gneiss…), a big granite, and then quaternary deposits: moraines, tills… “
Random Sand Fact
In a museum in Andorra, some works of art are so small that you need a microscope to see them.
Nikolai Syadristy’s microminiatures are made from materials including gold and platinum and placed on things such as hairs, seeds and the eye of a needle.
Among works described from the collection is a tiny bottle sitting on a single grain of sand.
An entire artwork on something we normally barely see.
