Cultural Event

This week I played to attend a film festival in Salt Lake put on by local high school students, but that just didn't work out. So this weekend when I went home I found out about a cultural exhibit at the Sahara West Library, which worked out perfect because I actually already attended a film event. The exhibit was about an Indian tribe and their culture. People who were actually from India were at the library, which I thought was really exciting. Some of them were at tables set up where they were selling native made items and asking for donations to improve a local school run by their religious leaders. I was thrilled by all the little trinkets and I bought a mini journal with ornate pink clothe around it and a cool keychain for my friend which kind of resembles a dream catcher. The best part of the exhibit however, was the art. In a circular room, perfect setting for what was being displayed, was a large table covered with a glass piece. Inside the glass was sand. It was formed into a partially done picture that was so detailed it took me a minute of analyzation to even realize that it was sand! That was already astonishing to me, but then some native entered the room, I assume they did it hourly, and began using hand crafted tools to blow and shape the sand into tiny rows and add to the existing picture. They would shake the sand to position it just right. The technique was so skillful and very tedious. But the sand was vibrant and breathtaking!