What have we turned into? What do you think our future looks like?
The beauty of this sculpture lies in its story but also in its immense complexity, size and detailing which is often ignored by the naked eye!
How big do you think this sculpture is?
Try guessing!
Okay! Lets see for sure.
Anything more than 10 inches would simply be a wrong guess.
Lets not forget that this is a 1000 year old sculpture.
The elephant is 10 Inches from head to toe and the man close to 3 inches in height! Isn't that insane ?
Now look closer, What do you see?
The chain around the elephant is less than an inch, and that's not it !
Today thanks to advancement in technology, we got modern machinery like the electric chisels which vibrates at a very
So how did someone carve something so intense at least 800 years ago? and it's not just 1 or 2 idols we find here but literally more than a hundred thousand of them! Every inch of the place is a piece of Art. It took at 11 days to do our complete shoot and it will probably take forever for us to decode them (but I really hope not).
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Here's what Kurukshetra would have looked like !
When I see graffiti on the walls (and even windows) of beautiful buildings, I lose my hope for the future of humanity.
I have come to a sad conclusion that for as long as there are creators there will be destroyers . I hate most of the gravity these days.
I am impressed with the amount of detail that the sculpture has despite the small size it has, the art of the sculpture is very beautiful and allows to create beautiful works. War is one of the worst things that happens to this world. People who let themselves be carried away by anger, destroy pieces of art of a respite, not only human lives are lost but also a large part of the history of a country. Excellent post, greetings.
If they haven't used high tech machinery they prolly devoted their entire life towards it . I don't think they spent so much time on it as we suspect, they polly had a very different type of rock cutting or melting tech they used to do this. The confusing part is that there are 100s of such shrines like how the freaking hell
I always wonder how the sculptors in the past could be so precise and accurate at what they do and that too without any sort of modern equipment that we have today.
Just think of all the pieces of history we have destroyed because we were too careless to give a damn about them. All these artifacts are precious and we treat them as if it's nothing. That's just sad.
@awakeningartist
A true professional, very good job. And the best part is that you love your job
I work in tourism for 7 years in a gothic church. From year to year teenagers are worse and worse: they are loud, chewing gum, touching EVERYTHING, leaving litter everywhere...sometimes visit of 50 like those mentioned earlier it is like a nightmare. They don't respect nor holy place nor work of my workmates...Fortunately tourists season won't lasts forever....
I would frankly break their nose
Regards @awakeningartist
Great point of view regarding how in the Past ... the real masons in stone could create such an amazing art and the most interesting thing how they've created to be so durable ...
Regarding the Future ... as a parallel between being sculptor or an artist in concept of Art/Music ... for me it's very simple :-) Nowadays in music almost everyone consider's himself a composer/musician just by using some samples of sounds which most of the time they're programmed so you can sustain one keyboard key and the arppegios are done :-)
People, nowadays don't know how to get out the essence from an acoustic instrument whitout technology :-)
That's why i do preffer to have all of my compositions created from real sound of wood instruments ... such as duduk, bulgarian kaval, turkish ney, saxophones, bansuri and many others.
This was the real Art in the Past on all the domains included in this vast platform/spectrum named Art :-)
The prime matter from which they've carved/sculptured/played was real wood/stone/copper/silver that was not destroyed thru chemical procedures like in our Days ...
Hopefully we'll be able to sustain this organic form of carving/sculpturing/playing organic thru all these forms.
We'll see ... Time's are changing ...
Have a Blessed Day @awakeningartist