In view of the huge footfalls of tourists and art connoisseurs at Puri during Christmas and New Year, noted sand artist and Padma Shri Sudarsan Pattnaik has created a gigantic sand structure of two Santa Clauses with Jesus Christ at the Puri beach on Wednesday.
The 20-foot-high sand structure carried a message of Global Peace and Merry Christmas. He used about 50 tonnes of sand and took about 22 hours to complete the sculpture. 15 student of his sand art institute have joined their hands to complete the sculpture.“We will also appeal to the limca Book of Record to place our sculpture as the world’s biggest twin sand Santa Claus,” said Sudarsan.
He has also created sand sculpture of political leaders of five countries, including India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pakistan Prime minister Nawab Sarif, US President Barack Obama, Russia President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister David Cameron with a message ‘Merry Christmas, let peace prevail’.