Artist Vik Muniz is known for his gigantic composite installations and sculptures created from thousands of individual objects. In this new collaboration with artist and MIT researcher Marcelo Coelho, Muniz takes the opposite approach and explores the microscopic with a new series of sandcastles etched onto individual grains of sand.

“The Baja California Pronghorn or Peninsular Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana peninsularis) is a critically endangered pronghorn, endemic to Mexico. The wild population is estimated at 200”. – Wikipedia

Photo: Two rare Peninsular pronghorns, male twins was born at the Los Angeles Zoo on April 24, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Only 250 antelope-like Peninsular pronghorns are believed to exist in the wild. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

A massive positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike hits in Coolidge, Arizona, 31 August 2016. Thousands of rain drops merge to form mammoth travelling sheets of water in these breathtaking monsoons. Veteran storm chaser and photographer Mike Olbinski captured the stunning beauty of monsoons in timelapses and stills while chasing storm systems across America. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Images)

Woman and man playing domination games in bed. (Photo by NDAB Creativity/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

A man cools off under a pipe of flowing water on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, May 11, 2022. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)

A drag queen goes through security a RuPaul’s DragCon in Los Angeles, USA on May 26, 2019. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Ukrainian artillery fires towards the frontline during heavy fighting amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near Bakhmut, Ukraine on April 13, 2023. (Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

Children in Hiroshima, Japan, wearing masks to combat the odour of death after the city was destroyed by the first atom bomb. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1945