Esoteric Truth-seeker: Mission Beach crab art. [Northern Queensland]

Take a look at this small craps on the beach at Mission Beach. They come out of their holes when the tide goes in and start to cover the whole beach with little balls of sand. They filter the sand through a part of their bodies and just sort of spit or throw it out. When they first come out they form different patters with the balls of sand till they start to meet up with their neighbour’s balls and it later just becomes chaos till the whole beach has been given a makeover.

Then the tide comes out, leave some nutrients on the sand, starts to go back in and every crab starts from scratch again on a new canvas. They can turn over the sand like little bulldozers and cover kilometres of beach in two to three hours; there are that many of them. They surly turn Mission beach over from white sand to little balls in that time.

I like to think that this is where the Australian Aborigines, who looked at nature for inspiration, got their idea for their art where they make for instance a simple drawing of an animal and its surroundings, usually a lizard, and then spend hours filling it in with little dots of different colours. That was one of the first things I thought off when I saw this. Just copy nature, or in this case the crabs.

This is better than abstract art. If you look long enough at the different shapes that start to take shape you will find some of them start to look pretty familiar with the help of a bit of imagination.