Inside the Itchy, Sticky World of Competitive Sand Sculpting

The elements are rarely more salient than at a sand-sculpture event. “There’s always a battle every year with the weather,” says Tim Parke, the president and logistics coordinator of Texas SandFest, Port Aransas’s annual competition. This year, Parke’s primary concern is the wind, he says, hollering as he tears down the shore in a golf cart on Saturday, the second morning of the three-day April festival. Gusts rattle the chain-link fence that surrounds the event. To his left, the waves are frothy and chaotic. To his right, long rows of artists, some of whom have traveled from across the globe, are focused on their sculptures.So far the wind has not affected the master sculptors, who crouch before monsters and monuments—two men are hard at work…

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