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Coral Sand Whisper

Artist:
Kume Island, Japan
Notes:

In February, on Ara Beach, the sea moves with a quiet and deliberate rhythm.
Each wave arrives softly and withdraws as though drawn into the island’s breath, leaving behind faint traces—coral grains shifting in a dry, glass‑like murmur, small fragments rolling over one another with the pale shimmer of scattered light.
As the water slips back into the sand, clusters of bubbles remain for a moment, trembling lightly before they disappear into the shoreline.
These fleeting gestures form a quiet dialogue between sea and land, a conversation held in the finest textures of movement and stillness.
In this recording, the gentle pull of the receding tide, the brittle chime of coral sand, and the soft snap of dissolving foam gather into a single, intimate breath — a small portrait of Ara Beach on Kume Island,

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