Video: How is Christmas celebrated in warm countries? 500 Santa Clauses made of sand on the beach in India
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is difficult for us to imagine and understand this, but for a huge number of inhabitants of the Earth, Christmas and New Year is not a winter, but a summer holiday! And they celebrate it not under a tree on a snow-covered square, but under a palm tree on the beach. An example of this is warm India, where the other day even a series of five hundred sculptures of Santa Clauscreated from sand.
Somewhere on the pre-holiday days, festivals of sculptures made of ice and snow are held, and somewhere made of sand. After all, people live in different climatic zones, and therefore everyone adapts the New Year and Christmas to their temperature conditions.
For example, for the inhabitants of India, Christmas is a holiday in which it is quite possible to swim in the warm ocean, walk along the beach in a swimsuit and sculpt figures from the sand. The latter is the work of the artist Sudarsan Pattnaik, who specializes in this rather specific art form.
On the eve of the New Year, he created a very unusual group, sculpting 500 figures of Santa Claus out of sand. Moreover, he even painted their "clothes" red using safe food paint.
I must say that it was created not only for the sake of beauty, and Sudarsan Pattnaik was guided not only by the spirit of Christmas that originated within him. The main purpose of this installation is to inform people about the threat of Global Warming through art. Indeed, a few hours after finishing work on these sandy Santa Clauses, they were washed away by the surf.
Moreover, this is not the first such work from Sudarsan Pattnaik. In 2009, he already created exactly one hundred sandy Santa Clauses. Apparently, then people did not heed his warnings, and the master decided to repeat this creative act on a much larger scale.
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