Brooklyn sidewalk<\/a> \u2013 and dozens of people are going out of their way just to catch a glimpse of it.<\/p>\nRoughly 50 gawkers stopped by Sunday to see the sculpture outside of House of the Lord Pentecostal Church on Atlantic Avenue after it was shared widely on Instagram and X.<\/p>\n
A massive \u201cSnow King\u201d sculpture by Belarusian artist Henrik Lojka is drawing crowds in Brooklyn. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n
The lifelike snow art, depicting Lithuanian King Mindaugas, was made in three hours on Atlantic Avenue. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very creative, it looks like Poseidon,\u201d said Gautier Ithorotz, who was visiting from Paris. \u201cI don\u2019t know how long it takes to make that, but it\u2019s crazy work.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just appreciating the creation.\u201d he added of the sidewalk art \u2014 which shows the massive face of a bearded, crowned face that its maker says is Lithuanian King Mindaugas.<\/p>\n
Three Boerum Hill locals stopped to take pictures \u2014 before poking its hollow eyes and stealing its nose.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like Aquaman,\u201d Clover Li, 25, said. \u201cI want to poke its eyes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like Little Mermaid\u2019s father,\u201d said Adalia Lai, 26.<\/p>\n
Lojka, a former art teacher, creates works to preserve Belarusian history and was jailed for dissent. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw this on the WhatIsNewYork Instagram page and thought, \u2018no f\u2013king way,’\u201d said one 23-year-old man, who declined to share his name.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He and his girlfriend took a detour from their weekly walk to a nearby Yemeni restaurant in order to ogle the melting \u201csnow king.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s the reason why we decided to come out to walk the two blocks away from where we normally go on our Sunday trip,\u201d the man added. \u201cIt\u2019s an abnormal thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Belarusian artist Henrik Lojka made the lifelike snowman over three hours.<\/p>\n
Roughly 50 gawkers stopped by Sunday to see the sculpture. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n
Belarusian artist Henrik Lojka made the lifelike snowman over three hours. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cHe thought the crown would look really nice against the background of New York,\u201d said Viktoria Lahunova, 38, who was translating for 63-year-old Lojka, a former art teacher in Belarus. \u201cHe started with the crown, and he went down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lojka said that before he came to the US in 2021, he created sculptures of characters from Belarusian history out of sand. He previously spent 20 days in prison for speaking out against Belarusian President Aleksandr\u00a0Lukashenko.<\/p>\n
Lojka has also sculpted two busts in front of nearby Belarusian Autocephalous Church on Atlantic Avenue, he said through his interpreter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a big, huge problem in Belarus: People forget their roots because we\u2019re losing the power of having our language,\u201d he said through the translator, noting he likes to create works that remind people of Belarusian history as Russian language and culture dominates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that\u2019s cool! A snow pile was shaped into a massive \u201cSnow King\u201d sculpture on a Brooklyn sidewalk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,3470,85103,1040,132484,56,54,55,1384],"class_list":{"0":"post-341399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-sculptures","15":"tag-snow","16":"tag-snowmen","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}