"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 became a temporary outdoor gallery where volunteers used rakes to create sprawling geometric sand art including spirals, peace signs, and sunrays anchored by the message "Be Kind." Hundreds of people gathered and navigated the designs, which invited interaction while remaining intentionally ephemeral. A 10-year-old usher, Kavi Amador, and his father, Andrés Amador, helped coordinate the event and treated the artworks as transient. The raked patterns transformed the coarse shore into crop-circle-like designs that were ultimately reclaimed and erased by the ocean's tides.
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