The Battle of Gate Pa Told With Sand | Marcus Winter | TEDxTauranga

Master storyteller, Marcus creates live artworks by placing sand on a lightbox, and manipulates sand to create images that morph into amazing stories. He presented an utterly compelling sound and visual performance of the Battle of Gate Pa, a very significant piece of local history during the Maori Land Wars. Hard to describe, impossible to forget. Magical. "The Sandman" - Artist, Scorcerer and Storyteller. Marcus Winter conjurers mystical apparitions out of thin air and blurs the lines between conventional painting, street art and theatrical performance. Starting from the streets over a decade ago, Marcus began creating live spray can art works after learning from a street artist from Europe. Taking some cardboard down to the local "Otara Fleamarket"- he set himself up on the pavement and began to do his thing. After many years on the pavement, at markets and city streets, he travelled Bogota, Colombia to learn an ink artform. The use of Sand as his preferred medium which was a natural progression from ink art and has taken him from the streets to the stage. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx