Eswatini

In Eswatini, there is an artwork that tries to capture an entire country in sand.

Inside a glass sculpture of a cow sits river sand in many colours. The sand comes from a landscape where rivers carry material down from the mountains and through the country, past homes, cattle and farmland.

The artists call the work Mhlabatsi. For them, the movement of the sand also becomes an image of how knowledge and tradition pass between people and generations.

The glass around the sand is recycled and collected locally.

Two materials. One place.