Monday, 6 July 2009

International Wax Sculpting Competition, Ubon Ratchathani Thailand

I wrote about the International Wax Sculpting Competition which is part of the Lenten Candle Festival, last Friday. Today is Monday and I thought I would go back and check on how the sculptures were all looking 4 days on. They have till tomorrow to finish the sculptures.

I have the names and also what each sculpture represents from the artists perspective. I will give the name of each sculpture but I am not going to go into what the sculpture is about because if you click on this link it will take you to the website that has all this information for you. Also there are pictures from the very first day of the competition.
'Thai
This is the Thai sculpture, and is called ‘Miracle in Mind’ and still not complete. Small finishing touches still to be done.
'Hungarian
The Hungarian sculpture is called ‘Pillar of Love’ and close to being completed.
'Chinese
'Chinese
'Chinese
The Chinese Sculpture “Magic Dragon”. It’s still my favourite. I love the detail and it still isn’t finished.
'Malaysian
'Malaysian
The Malaysian Sculpture “The Dragon of Tasik Chini”. I really like this sculpture as well.
'Romanian
The Romanian sculpture “Genesis”, I thought it was a plough of some sort. I am not very broad minded.
Japanese Sculpture " Children's Eyes"
Japanese Sculpture " Children's Eyes"
The Japanese sculpture “Children’s Eyes” I had a close look at it today and I am very impressed with the lines and details the sculptor has produced.
'Indonesian
The Indonesian sculpture “Superheroes in a Box”. It has really come together since 4 days ago.
'Bulgarian
The Bulgarian sculpture “Flame 1”, I also like this even though it looks like a simple design.
'Chilean
The Chilean sculpture “Gift of Life”, I am looking forward to a closer inspection of this when it is completed.

Picking a winner is going to be very hard. I would hate to be a judge. I am leaning towards the Chinese, Malaysian, Japanese and the Chilean to fill the top spots, but we will see in a few days time.

Brunty

5 comments:

Talen said...

Wow! Some of those sculptures are absolutely amazing. Magic Dragon is beautiful as is the Malaysian Dragon.

Question though...has the heat affected the wax in any way or has it made it more difficult for the artists?

Brunty said...

The heat does affect the thinner wax candles they start to melt. They need to be sprayed with water to keep them cool.

The wax seemed very hard and when you poke it, it takes a good effort to make an indentation.

Some of them used chainsaws to cut the wax.

Alan & Wanna said...

Fantastic. Make sure you give us all a heads up before other such spectacular events.

MJ Klein said...

it's amazing what people can do when they put their minds to it!

Brunty said...

Will try to Alan but not a lot happens apart from this :)

It really is MJ, I am just not that creative.

I would just add a wick.