Sudarsan Pattnaik bags first prize at Berlin Sand Art Championship

Pioneer News Service | Bhubaneswar
Orissa's well-known sand artiste Sudarsan Pattnaik has bagged the first prize for his 25-feet-high sculpture on global warming at the USF World Double Championship in Berlin on Thursday. The second and third prizes were won by artistes from the US and the Netherlands, respectively.
Pattnaik sculpted a polar bear on top of a globe praying save my family, and beneath the sculpture were three different faces representing Africa, Europe and Asia. Pattnaik and his student Jitendra Kishore Jagadev were the only Indian representatives in the championship.
Sand artistes from 12 countries, including India, Denmark, Germany, the US, the UK, Spain, Holland, Japan, Belgium, Morocco, Italy and France, participated in the championship organised by Sandsation. The sand carving began on June 5 and ended on June 12. The sculptures would, however, remain for public display for another couple of weeks in Berlin.
It may be noted that Pattnaik recently won the People's Choice Prize at the Moscow international sand sculpture championship, in which he had also created a sand art based on global warming. He had also won the first prize at the Berlin competition in 2005 with a 15-feet-high sculpture titled World Peace that depicted Mahatma Gandhi with three monkeys.