Saturday, December 03, 2011

International Sand Art Festival 2011

The famous Chandrabhaga Beach of Konark also is the venue for 2011 International Sand Art Festival. As I experienced the same by person and sharing few photographs from the event.

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The star of Odisha, renowned sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik...

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The crowd on Chandrabhaga Beach to experience the event...

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Artist Rrmy Geerts from Holland and her creation...


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Artist Sridhar Dash from Odisha, India
His theme was based on preserving the heritage.

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Artist Anupam Mohanty from Odisha, India
He wanted to showcase the car festival of Lord Jagannath.

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Artist Gowri M. N. from Mysore, India

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And here comes my personal favorite... by Artist Jitendra Kishore Jagadev from Odisha, India
A lively presentation of Buddhism.

There were 30 participants in total and they will be changing there themes everyday for five days to be judged. These all are from the inauguration day and few more will follow soon.

2 comments:

Shrinidhi Hande said...

liked the sand structures

Ar. Manveen Kaur said...

what art!...amazing...