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Indian sand sculptor wins top
honours
WSN Network
NEW DELHI:
By
choosing ‘global warming’ — the hottest topic in the world today —
as the theme of his sand sculpture at the Berlin International sand
artists’ competition, India’s Sudarshan Pattnaik caught the eyes of
the public and the jury alike to win the first prize. His
25-feet-tall sand sculpture screamed aloud the impending disaster
that the world is going to face from the global warming phenomenon,
which has already shrunk a major source of water — glaciers — and
changed the weather cycle while raising the sea level.
It was a simple
piece of sand art — a polar bear and faces of people from three
continents, Asia, Africa and Europe. The sweating polar bear sitting
atop a world heated by an inferno made of the hair of the three, a
man, woman and a child, from different continents gave a distress
call — ‘Save my family’.
Competiting with
artists from Denmark, Germany, US, Great Britain, Spain, Holland,
Japan, Belgium, Morocco, Italy and France, Pattnaik with his student
Jitendra Kishore Jagdev used tonnes of special sand held together by
spraying water on it with the help of an atomiser and worked for
more than a week to finally present the public and the jury his
masterpiece on June 12. The sand sculpture, immediately after being
unveiled for the competition, attracted hoardes of people making him
hopeful of finishing within the first three. “I had put in my heart
and soul into the sculpture and the jury, artists and public
together voted it as the best,” Pattnaik, who had also won the first
prize at this competition three years ago, told TOI from
Berlin.
While the Indian artist bagged the first prize at the USF World
Double Championship, the second prize went to US and the third to
Netherlands.
The sculptures
of the competitors would remain on public display till June 17.
Hailing from Orissa’s famous beach town Puri, Pattnaik had recently
won the ‘People’s Choice Prize’ at the
Moscow
international sand sculpture championship.
18
June,
2008
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