"A mass of people congregated on the beach with rakes in hand, creating some of the best and most organized sand art I've ever seen. It looked like TikTok-famous 2024 aliens had ditched the cornfields in 2025 to gentrify Ocean Beach - upgrading the coarse, unkempt sand with sprawling geometric patterns. Spirals, peace signs, and sunrays stretched across the shore, anchored by a simple message: "Be Kind." Beachgoers wove through the designs, careful but inevitably disruptive, because this was art meant to be temporary."
"As I walked down to the beach I was greeted by a 10-year-old with the presence of an established 40-somethings man - a level of maturity that I have yet to see in the tech bro culture that runs this city. "Can I help you, are you here for the event?" asked KaviAmador. I told the young usher that I was looking for the person in charge and he pointed to his father, Andrés Amador."
Ocean Beach transformed for an afternoon into a sprawling display of raked sand art featuring geometric patterns, spirals, peace signs, and sunrays centered around the message "Be Kind." Hundreds of participants gathered with rakes to create organized, large-scale designs across the coarse shore while onlookers wove through the work, acknowledging its impermanence. The event conveyed a crop-circle, TikTok-influenced vibe from the Cliff House vantage, and included local artist Andrés Amador alongside youthful volunteers. The artworks were intentionally temporary and ultimately erased by incoming waves, underscoring the ephemeral nature of the gathering.
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