OBAMAMANIA

 How big should your canvas be? How about 2.5 acres of ground to create a gigantic Obama portrait? This piece is called “Expectations,” sand art by Jorge Rodrigues Gerada.

Official notes about this project:

The work’s grand scale (1 hectare / 2.5 acres) embodies the immense sense of hope felt by Barack Obama’s supporters and raises a mirror to reflect the source of that hope. Obama has awakened an enormous yearning for change that runs deep beneath decades of disaffection with the political establishment.

The outsize scale of EXPECTATION also allowed the artist to allude to the global impact of this election. For people around the world, the symbolic power of an Obama presidency would be without precedent in modern history.

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