{"id":7683,"date":"2024-08-08T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7683"},"modified":"2024-08-08T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:13:54","slug":"liverpool-artist-creates-beach-tribute-to-brooklyns-olympic-shot-put-star-sarah-mitton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/08\/08\/liverpool-artist-creates-beach-tribute-to-brooklyns-olympic-shot-put-star-sarah-mitton\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool artist creates beach tribute to Brooklyn’s Olympic shot put star Sarah Mitton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liverpool artist Jane Stevenson created this tribute to Sarah Mitton on Wednesday in the sand at Summerville Beach. (Jane Stevenson photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

For most people, a day at the beach might involve some swimming or lounging on the sand.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Jane Stevenson, a day at the beach involves creating a 120-by-60-foot piece of sand art as a tribute to Olympic shot putter Sarah Mitton.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Liverpool artist\u2019s creation on Summerville Beach featured an 85-foot Eiffel Tower with a Canadian flag in the middle and the Olympic rings at the base, with Paris 2024 on one side and \u201cGo Sarah!\u201d on the other.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a friend and she\u2019s a marvellous person,” Stevenson says of Mitton, who is from Brooklyn.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m enjoying drawing in the sand and I thought what a great thing to be able to do. So I started with the rings one day and I thought that\u2019s not enough. So I stuck a little Eiffel Tower on it and looked at it at home and said that\u2019s not good enough. So, four more tries and not succeeding. Finally, new strategies and a little more homework on the design, on the fifth try, it all came together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stevenson created it in about two and a half hours late Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She shared a photo and drone video to her Facebook profile<\/a> Wednesday evening. That post was shared widely. And CBC\u2019s Olympics reporter Devin Heroux posted the photo on his Twitter feed<\/a> Thursday morning after Mitton qualified for the shot put final<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gone far and wide, so that\u2019s kind of cool. And lovely comments about it. So that\u2019s really nice too. People really enjoyed the picture and the sentiment behind it. It was fun.<\/span><\/p>\n

“That\u2019s the most far-reaching anything I ever do will get. So that\u2019s quite a compliment to have them want to do that with it. So I\u2019m pleased with that, it\u2019s more than I thought would happen with it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It was Stevenson\u2019s fifth time trying to get her design down in the sand, after plotting it out precisely on paper.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe first one went down on the sand on the 27th of July, so between then and yesterday I finally got it right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She and her husband Garth used a very long tape measure and a homemade compass to plot out the basic lines of the piece. And then she used a rake to fill in the detail of the Eiffel Tower and the Olympic rings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stevenson says that she used the drone only once as she was putting it together.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJust eyed it. Did it by eye. My lines and my paper that I was going off of were really precise and then we really measured precisely this last time. I had my homework really well done on the fifth try. And then you can just can tell visually that it looks alright. It was math, and drawn lines.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stevenson has created eye-popping pieces of public art before, most recently for a Privateer Days parade float for the Mersey Rose Theatre Company. That featured a huge tea party set for the company\u2019s upcoming production of Alice in Wonderland Jr. She\u2019s also created displays for the Astor Theatre, including a life-sized Barbie doll package.<\/span><\/p>\n

She\u2019s done six or seven other beach art pieces this summer, but this one was the biggest and most complicated. She started at 4 in the afternoon near low tide and finished it around 6:30, racking up about 50,000 steps along the way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I\u2019d won the gold medal, the gold medal in the Olympic sand drawing. It was a very good feeling to get the result I wanted.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was fun to do. I really wanted it to work for Sarah. … <\/span>Not bad for a day at the beach.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She\u2019s not sure if Mitton has seen it yet, but she knows her mother Bonnie has. Stevenson says she\u2019ll be at home on Friday afternoon cheering on Mitton as she goes for gold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mitton qualified for the final on Thursday with her first throw, which was also the farthest in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Astor Theatre is holding a live viewing party<\/a> of the shot put final from 2 to 4 p.m. It\u2019s free to everybody. The final is scheduled to begin at 2:37 p.m. Atlantic time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn the edge of our seats. She\u2019s looking pretty good. This morning it looked effortless for her. She qualified so easily. I have good feelings for her tomorrow. I think she\u2019ll do well. She\u2019s worked hard, she\u2019s ready.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stevenson says she appreciates all the positive feedback she\u2019s received on her beach sand tribute.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to everybody who has commented on it. That means a lot as well that they have enjoyed it so. That\u2019s made it even more worthwhile. And, go Sarah!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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