Press Release
CARDIFF, WALES, March 17, 2009: From March 18 to April 4, 2009, two artists from India will be at St Fagans: National History Museum, Cardiff creating colourful full-size images of a Hindu goddess for the Wales Puja Committee. The visit of the artists to Wales will offer the unique opportunity to see them at work creating images of the goddess Durga and her companions; a rare site outside of Bengal.
It is said that Durga is extremely beautiful with her long wavy hair, and three lotus-shaped eyes; she stands astride a lion, holding ten different weapons in each of her ten hands.
In India, the sculptures are created annually, because at the end of a period of celebrating, they are immersed in a river or lake, but for Welsh Bengalis, they have to keep hold of the images for the ‘Ñurga Puja’†festival every autumn because it is impossible to create new sculptures every year.br /br /The process of creating a statue of Durga is a holy one from start to finish and at 2pm, April 1 the sacred ceremony of Chakshu Daan –†the painting of the eye will take place./phr /