 Guys, I'm here with Daniel who's a sand sculptor. How long did this piece take you Daniel? I started around 10 o'clock this morning. Really? Yeah, I compacted it yesterday. So I prepared the sand yesterday And then I started carving just this morning. How did you bring it over? Like how did you bring over all the sand? And it was just dumped by a truck just here on the side and I compacted the sand I use kind of things like cake tins. I just put them on I compact sand in layer by layer great and then adding on All higher and higher ones on the top. So until I have a big block of sand that I take away the plastic So I have a big block of sand there. Yeah. Now think about these sand sculptures is I've never seen them when they're halfway I only see them when they're finished. Yeah, that's true. Well, so that's skeptical Yeah, it's because it's so quick to do that We don't do that a day or two So I mean a lot of the ones that you see on the streets in Dublin like the guys They kind of arrive very early in the morning and they do the dog I think that's what it is. Yeah Yeah, but I think there's kind of I think there's one guy who thought all of them had to do the dog. Oh, of course But I think that's all he thought them had to do. Yeah, it's continual the same one How long have you been doing this for? Sand sculpture. Yeah Around 20 years. Well, it's your it's your day job. Is this it's my job Yeah, I mean during the summer months I do sand and then winter I do ice Ice Yeah, obviously, so always materials. Yeah, sorry materials that don't last forever. That's kind of my my thing during the autumn He uses leaves That's true. I make films which also kind of are ephemeral in a way unless you're watching Does this woman has a name? Um, no, not really. I'm kind of really I'm just making it up really as I go along. I wanted to experiment the idea of wind Um, a lot of the other sculptures you see around here are kind of pieces from a wind turbines Yeah, so I was kind of wanting to just Just heat off that. Yeah, and I knew I wanted to create just a character because it's a family event And I think I didn't want to go too high brown with yeah, so I wanted something a bit more That people might understand on a face value. So what are you going to do now tonight when you're going to bed? Pray pray Come tomorrow, it's going to have no head I think people will hopefully respect it. And yeah, that's why I'm kind of leaving certain areas that I hope I didn't want to do the right thing No, no, I mean it will stand up pretty well to the rain. Um, if someone wants to break it, they can break it I know Well, hopefully there'll be security around Tignan and I but I hope that people in the festival will all just have such a Good time. They'll they won't kind of think this is yeah. I mean when it's finished I can I'd like to see it finished before it gets destroyed but I always kind of think of a plan B. Yeah, and so if If something happens tonight, then I just come in here and I'll do something else tomorrow Anyway, Daniel, good talking to you. Nice check. Thanks a million. All right