Throughout that summer, sculptors from around the world worked on their creations at the beach, but only Irarrázabal's continues to sit on the beach today,[1] not having left its original spot, and remaining largely untouched.[2] It gained Irarrázabal worldwide acclaim and is popularized by tourist photographs and reproductions on postcards.[2] He later made near or exact replicas of the sculpture for the city of Madrid (in 1987), the Mano del Desierto (Hand of the Desert) in the Atacama Desert in Chile (1992), and in Venice (1995).[5]