Sand Castle Memories
2022 CE • Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Over a period of many years, the beach in our beloved vacation location, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, has diminished in size. A place that once served as a home for the construction of sand castle cities now is barely large enough for tourists to stroll up and down the beach.
Image: Elelicht, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Learn about Maya Lin’s fifth and final memorial: a multi-platform science based artwork that presents an ecological history of our world - past, present, and future.
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