Over 200 artists build large Easter sand sculptures in Bolivia
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- 28 Apr 2023
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More than 200 artists have gathered in Bolivia to build large Easter sand sculptures with the figures built to tell the story of Holy Week, Sky News reports.
A three-metre-high face of Christ, according to the report, caught the attention of the public.
Visitors, it says, flocked to witness this annual art spectacle before icy winds whipped through.
According to AP, for a few hours, 250 artists from Bolivia, Peru and Argentina created 25 sculptures, most of them religious, in the Cochiraya sandbanks, in the suburbs of the city, 190 kilometers from La Paz.
Christ’s Stations of the Cross, the news agency writes, came to life in monumental sand sculptures in a mining town in southwestern Bolivia. They will remain there as long as the icy wind from the Bolivian altiplano allows and until at dawn on Saturday, in an annual festival for Holy Week held in the Oruro dunes, they are permanently erased.
On Friday afternoon, the space opened to the public and brought together hundreds of attendees. Faith and art move these sand artisans who were shaping the figures from Friday morning until the harsh sun of the altiplano appeared, compacting sand with water and sculpting beyond noon. Read More..
