Gallery: These Massive Snow Drawings Are Like Crop Circles Made From Footprints

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    Sonja Hinrichsen is an artist who works in snow.
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    Her massive 'snow drawings' cover acres of land in snowy places like Colorado, upstate New York, and the French Alps.
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    For *We Are the Water*, she assembled a team of 50 volunteers near Steamboat, Colorado, to walk through the snow.
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    The piece is a tribute to the Yampa River, which used to flow through the valley where there's now a reservoir.
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    Hinrichsen’s snow drawings start on Google Maps. Once she “can ‘fly’ to those areas,” she can map out a general trajectory for where her volunteers should begin and end.
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    After that, it’s a free-flowing operation.
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    For *We Are the Water* she told her volunteers to pretend like they were each a drop of water, flowing through the river.
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