Sonja Hinrichsen's 'Snow Drawings' Project Takes Over Field Near Steamboat Springs, Colorado (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Crop circles? Forget 'em. Why destroy agriculture when there's plenty of snow to be had?

Sonja Hinrichsen, an artist visiting Steamboat Springs from San Francisco, helped create "Snow Drawings" earlier this month on Rabbit Ears Pass. The unique spirals were imprinted into the snow by 10 volunteers on snowshoes.

Steamboat Today adds the work is designed to be impermanent, reflecting "beauty at the whim of Mother Nature." “I’m not so into making art that lasts,” Hinrichsen told the paper. “The world is saturated with manmade projects. I don’t think I need to add more things to the planet.”

Though the snow will eventually melt, Cedar Beauregard of Steamboat Aerials was on hand to record the work. (SEE VIDEO, ABOVE)

PHOTOS of Hinrichsen's "Snow Drawings," via Steamboat Aerials:

Comments

[escribacat]

06:46 PM on 02/28/2012

Gorgeous. Must have taken a really long time!

[fumes]

11:10 AM on 02/28/2012

KIDS..

let this be a lesson to you:

that's what you get when you mix snowshoeing and fine weed!

[1differentdrummer]

04:01 AM on 02/23/2012

Isn't that Celtic/Native American motif beautiful?

[Marla Broyer]

12:23 AM on 02/23/2012

Really pretty!

[Mark Glomski]

09:35 PM on 02/22/2012

I hope she didn't get paid to do that.

[MountainMarge]

08:28 AM on 02/23/2012

Just because YOU said that, I may send her a check!

[FeyLadyD]

09:55 AM on 02/23/2012

Get over yourself! Just because you may not care for it doesn't mean it isn't worth anything.

[aquarius2]

12:25 PM on 02/22/2012

Sonja' s art is pretty to view and does not create permanent intrusion into the environment as opposed to what that guy Christo proposes over the Arkansas river. One is an artist, the other an opportunist.

[retromega]

10:32 AM on 02/22/2012

OMG! Aliens dressed up as humans wearing snowshoes! When will people learn that they exist! When will people learn that these aliens are descendants of BIGFOOT?

[Tigerama]

08:38 AM on 02/22/2012

Pretty - but also, who has that kind of time?

[leo moon]

01:50 PM on 02/22/2012

Ans: Those who make that kind of time.

[MountainMarge]

08:29 AM on 02/23/2012

She was on vacation! Got out and exercised, while showing a little creativity!

[escribacat]

06:49 PM on 02/28/2012

It's fabulous.

[gurukalehuru]

07:56 AM on 02/22/2012

“I’m not so into making art that lasts,” the artist said.

We have photography. Art no longer needs to be permanent to be permanent.

[johnjohn4321]

06:56 AM on 02/22/2012

Aliens!

[wegugin]

06:40 AM on 02/22/2012

This was obviously meant to be seen by flying saucers.

[sierraseven]

05:51 AM on 02/22/2012

Nifty! Looks like embroidery on linen.

And snowshoing is excellent exercise, too.

[cheo]

02:39 AM on 02/22/2012

It's fun to see a field I've skied across many times turned into what looks like stitching on a quilt from the helicopter.

Andrew Goldsworthy she's not, but it's still an impressive and interesting project.

[Nikmc]

08:32 AM on 02/22/2012

Sonja is a wonderful and talented artist. She may not be "Andrew" as you stated but she is like him an artist who uses nature and the environment as is to create art. So, she deserves recognition in her own right.

[Mr Crabs]

02:06 AM on 02/22/2012

Funny do it in the snow and it's art. Do it in wheat fields and it's aliens.

[Paros]

02:02 AM on 02/22/2012

I loved the fleeting seconds of watching the steps being made, as much, if not more than seeing the imprints. That is peaceful and so pleasant. So unimportant and yet touching in an ephemeral way.