Victoria’s Way Sculpture Park
This series of sculptures caught my eye recently (it’s almost fitting for a Halloween post!).
The unusual spiritual visions of an Irishman were created in stone by craftsmen in Mahabalipuram, India, and now populate a sculpture park in County Wicklow, Ireland.
On 22 acres of grounds, the park includes a series of dancing Ganesh figures, Shiva and other Hindu deities. It also includes more bizarre sculptures of a skeletal Buddha-like figure, an enormous disembodied finger, and a sculpture called “The Split Man” which shows a figure ripping itself in two, representing “the mental state of the dysfunctional human”.
October 9, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I’m trying to remember if I’ve seen this before. Regardless, it’s good enough that it gets me all excited all over again.
January 24, 2010 at 9:32 am
Not just a Buddha-Like Figure, that’s a less common representation of Buddha himself during his “starving buddha” phase, statues dipicting it can be found here and there many places. I saw my first one in the Wat Pho Temple in Bangkok Thailand.