Gift Muchenje's sculpture is about 7.5 feet tall, and stands in Kirstenbosch gardens. Hand carved out of black sepentine (springstone), it's available for sale, with a listed price of $12 000.
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That's lovely! The nice thing about a sculpture like this is that it can be enjoyed by all until someone buys it and puts it in their garden!
Thanks for your gracious words about "all that writing" I left with my picture today! There was just so much I wanted people to know about that time period and the history really is a great part of Nova Scotia's history, too. I could have written heaps more... On my blog, I got all the pictures up today from our whole day in the valley yesterday, and there are a lot of pictures of the information plates around Grand-Pre. I don't imagine the folks on 365 need any more pictures to look at, but I have a lot of friends who follow my summer adventures, so I'm using that Shutterfly site for two purposes now.
@Joe - I wish I had that sort of money. Yes, we are a comfortable middle-class family, but the cost of this statue would pay my kid's school fees for two years - and they are at a fee-paying, upper-end school! I do own a small black serpentine bird that I bought a few years back for about $120, but these big works of art are beyond me. To give you an idea, the curator who lives on the commission from the sales of the works, did not even greet me when I arrived to take the pictures - he heard me greet the gardeners in Afrikaans and Xhosa and knew I was a local - and thus never likely to be a prospective buyer!
Thanks for your gracious words about "all that writing" I left with my picture today! There was just so much I wanted people to know about that time period and the history really is a great part of Nova Scotia's history, too. I could have written heaps more... On my blog, I got all the pictures up today from our whole day in the valley yesterday, and there are a lot of pictures of the information plates around Grand-Pre. I don't imagine the folks on 365 need any more pictures to look at, but I have a lot of friends who follow my summer adventures, so I'm using that Shutterfly site for two purposes now.
looks like a tremendous amount of work went into it though