00:00Rocks of all shapes and sizes stacked up at Qixing Tan Beach in Hualien, eastern Taiwan.
00:05This is the Pacific Ocean International Festival of Rock Balancing and Arts,
00:09where artists from Taiwan and around the world gather to showcase their stacking skills.
00:15I found incredible that you have so many kinds of stones,
00:19different colors, white ones, black ones, with lines, with squares,
00:23with just different type of stone and different shapes.
00:29The festival centers on the philosophy of Leave No Trace creation.
00:33It features a competition where participants only use on-site materials,
00:37such as rocks, driftwood and marine debris, to create their works.
00:42However, during the competition, some of them realized that there are fewer rocks this year.
00:47It's not already, artists say that they're not enough.
00:52Artists say that the stone is not enough.
00:54Yes, it's not enough.
01:05According to the local government,
01:07weather may be the cause of the shortage.
01:26Despite having fewer rocks to work with,
01:29the artists' creations have not been affected,
01:31as extra stones were collected from nearby beaches.
01:34And staying true to the event's philosophy,
01:37the creations will return to nature after the festival wraps up.
01:41Patrick Chen and Sani Chi for Taiwan Plus.
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