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Sunday, March 12, 2006
giant Jatayu sculpture ... also washrooms inside
A huge sculpture of a Jatayu, a character from the Indian epic Ramayana will be built atop a rock in Kerala by 2008, by tradition the place where the great bird fell to earth after being terribly wounded by the demon Ravana. The site is some 50 km from Trivandrum, and the artist is "sculptor-turned-award winning film director" Rajiv Anchal. The work is commissioned by Kerala's "eco-tourism" department.
The work is being described as "Asia's largest functional sculpture", functional because people can walk through it. As the papers put it "The sculpture will house a history museum, a mini theatre, an open area and also washrooms inside."
Reminds us of the defunct(?) Garuda-Wisnu never completed in Bali, and of course Singapore's own Sentosa Merlion, described by the tourism authorities as "the world's largest free-form sculpture".Technorati Tags: Kerala, public art, Merlion, sculpture, Singapore, tourism
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