Oh dear!

The giant statues are lit up and ready to welcome guests to the province, and all is looking clean and beautiful for the Sea Festival in Sihanoukville, which begins today, Friday, 9 December, 2022.




It would be nice to see Sihanoukville looking so clean and cared for all year round.

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 12:21 pm

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 3:38 pm
“Neither I nor anyone else in our whole nation – nobody – has ever attempted such a large sculpture project,” copper sculptor and owner of Norak Singh Handicrafts tells the The Post.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle ... c-monument

However he didn't sculpt it, did he?

It was smelted in China from a mold. Presumably based on a CAD design

It is good looking though

It was designed by Cambodian architects. Sculpt = to create solid objects that represent a thing, person, idea, etc. out of a material such as wood, clay, metal, or stone (Cambridge Dictionary). The fact that some fabrication was done in China does not mean it was not sculpted. A maquette would have been made first and then the moulds would be made to scale from the maquette.

The copper sculptor found himself working late into the night on many occasions until they had moulds completed for all of the parts of the enormous statues. The moulds were then shipped to a foundry in China that his company had partnered with who would do the actual pouring of the molten copper into them.

https://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle ... c-monument


Here's a sculpture: Angel of the North by Antony Gormley. Do you imagine that Gormley actually hammered and welded all that metal himself? Or do you think it wasn't sculpted because Hartlepool Steel Fabrications Ltd fabricated it?

Statues come to life :

Huy Bunleng