{"id":634208,"date":"2026-10-18T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634208\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:26:11","slug":"sand-artist-sudarsan-pattnaik-creates-10-foot-tall-goddess-durga-sculpture-with-fruits-and-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634208\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Artist Sudarsan Pattnaik Creates 10-Foot-Tall Goddess Durga Sculpture With Fruits And Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Durga Puja is celebrated through different forms of art and creativity. Renowned sand artist and Padma Shri awardee Sudarsan Pattnaik created a unique installation of Maa Durga at Puri Sea Beach using sand, fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>The installation combined sand with 22 varieties of vegetables and 10 varieties of fruits. It also carried the festive message of Happy Durga Puja.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing the video of the\u00a0Sculpture on X, Sudarsan Pattnaik wrote, &#8220;I have created a sand art installation at Puri Beach, Odisha, using 32 varieties of fruits and vegetables 22 vegetables and 10 fruits. May Maa Durga bless everyone with strength, happiness, peace, and prosperity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Video Here:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Happy Maha Saptami! \ud83d\ude4f On this auspicious occasion, I have created a sand art installation at Puri Beach, Odisha, using 32 varieties of fruits and vegetables 22 vegetables and 10 fruits. May Maa Durga bless everyone with strength, happiness, peace, and prosperity. #MahaSaptami #DurgaPuja #MaaDurga #SandArt #PuriBeach #Odisha<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sudarsan Pattnaik (@sudarsansand) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sudarsansand\/status\/2111300976649081001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Standing 10 feet tall, the artwork was created using around eight tonnes of sand. Pattnaik completed the installation in five hours.<\/p>\n<p>The installation featured 32 varieties of fruits and vegetables, including oranges, apples, grapes, bananas, cucumbers, lemons, okra, bitter gourd, beans and carrots.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ANI\/status\/2111276897565110299?s=20\" rel=\"noindex,nofollow\">ANI<\/a>, Pattnaik was joined by students from his Sand Art Institute to create the installation. The artwork presented a distinctive way to celebrate Durga Puja by combining sand art with fruits and vegetables.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durga Puja is celebrated through different forms of art and creativity. Renowned sand artist and Padma Shri awardee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,310684,41761,310689,156,310690,310687,310685,111,139,69,310686,310683,166995,310688,310682,310692,310691],"class_list":["post-634208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-durga-ashtami","tag-durga-puja","tag-durga-puja-celebration","tag-entertainment","tag-festive-art","tag-fruits-and-vegetable-art","tag-happy-durga-puja","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-padma-shri-awardee-sudarsan-patnaik","tag-puri-sea-beach","tag-sand-art","tag-sand-artist","tag-sand-artist-sudarsan-pattnaik","tag-when-is-durga-ashtami","tag-when-is-maha-ashtami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}