The World's Smallest Beach
2011 CE • Florida, USA
My family used to always take summer vacations in Florida. There is one hotel with a private beach that we called the world's smallest beach. Each year when we returned the beach got smaller and smaller until it was filled with water.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: Daniel Piraino via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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