These Were Handmade in the 1800s by Layering Sand. No Glue was UsedTwistedSifter The Best of the visual Web, sifted, sorted and summarized Andrew Clemens (1857-1894) was an artist from Dubuque, Iowa but spent most of his life in nearby McGregor. At the age of five Clemens was stricken with encephalitis that left him completely deaf and nearly mute. At age 13 Clemens began experimenting with sand art, collecting multicolored sands from Iowa’s Pictured Rocks region
