Joseph DeLappe’s do-it-yourself sculpture recreates the Mahatma’s Dandi March at his exhibition in New York
NEW YORK: Mahatma Gandhi and his famous Dandi march have come alive once again thanks to an American artist.
Joseph DeLappe unveiled the Mahatma’s sculpture, complete with glasses and walking stick, at the Eyebeam gallery in New York.
Delappe built the 17 feet sculpture using cardboard, and then recreated the salt march with the help of a treadmill and the online world Second Life.
DeLappe, a professor at University of Nevada, spent 26 days walking with a digital Gandhi across the game’s virtual landscape. After that he decided to create the statue.
“After walking with Gandhi for 240 miles I decided it would be interesting to recreate him in monumental scale,” the Telegraph quoted DeLappe, as saying.
He has now also published a nine-step guide on the internet, which would allow model enthusiasts to build their own Gandhis.
Gandhi undertook the 248-mile salt march in India in 1930 in protest against unjust British taxes. AGENCIES
NEW YORK: Mahatma Gandhi and his famous Dandi march have come alive once again thanks to an American artist.
Joseph DeLappe unveiled the Mahatma’s sculpture, complete with glasses and walking stick, at the Eyebeam gallery in New York.
Delappe built the 17 feet sculpture using cardboard, and then recreated the salt march with the help of a treadmill and the online world Second Life.
DeLappe, a professor at University of Nevada, spent 26 days walking with a digital Gandhi across the game’s virtual landscape. After that he decided to create the statue.
“After walking with Gandhi for 240 miles I decided it would be interesting to recreate him in monumental scale,” the Telegraph quoted DeLappe, as saying.
He has now also published a nine-step guide on the internet, which would allow model enthusiasts to build their own Gandhis.
Gandhi undertook the 248-mile salt march in India in 1930 in protest against unjust British taxes. AGENCIES
MONUMENTAL TASK: Joseph DeLappe (top right) spent 26 days walking 240 miles with a digital Gandhi (right inset) online.
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