Tide chapel

Tide chapel. Pastel. 12" x 15"

Found this structure on the beach just after last labor day.

It clearly took a fair amount of design, engineering and labor to create. Like all great architecture, it's esthetically unique, suits its environment and seems to have a purpose.

Chapel? Altar? Performance art? Spontaneous creative expression? I'll probably never know who built it or why.

A few days later it was gone. Which makes it all the more magical.