Art that's been placed on the beach for someone to find. Among thousands and, possibly millions, of seashells washed up on shore is one painted to catch your eye. The shells are a local anomaly ...

Every summer, every winter, and often enough during the seasons in between, millions of humans around the globe make their way to the beach ... Paul Valéry's Sea Shells offers an antidote ...

The scene, so pristine and virgin ... snails before he held one during this trip at the beach. Heard or not, these mystery-carrying seashells on the shores call for being left alone.