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In India, One Man Literally Prays to an Uncanny Sculpture He Made of Donald Trump, His ‘God’
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/indian-man-worships-donald-trump-statue-1782381
“It took almost a month and 15 laborers to build this statue,” Krishna told Asian News International, an Indian news agency. “[Trump] is like a God to me, that is the reason I had his statue built.”
The statue depicts Trump in a blue suit with a red tie, right hand raised in a signature thumbs up. As in common in depictions of Hindu gods in art, Trump has pink skin, accentuated by applications of bright red sindoor powder on the statue’s forehead (a Hindu religious mark known as a tilak).
Krishna, who lives in the village of Konne in Telengana, near Hyderabad, makes offerings at the custom shrine every day, in a bizarre take on Hinduism’s traditional puja prayer ritual. He began the practice four years ago, after Trump allegedly appeared to him in a dream.
Bussa Krishna prays to his statue of President Donald Trump. Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/indian-man-worships-donald-trump-statue-1782381
“It took almost a month and 15 laborers to build this statue,” Krishna told Asian News International, an Indian news agency. “[Trump] is like a God to me, that is the reason I had his statue built.”
The statue depicts Trump in a blue suit with a red tie, right hand raised in a signature thumbs up. As in common in depictions of Hindu gods in art, Trump has pink skin, accentuated by applications of bright red sindoor powder on the statue’s forehead (a Hindu religious mark known as a tilak).
Krishna, who lives in the village of Konne in Telengana, near Hyderabad, makes offerings at the custom shrine every day, in a bizarre take on Hinduism’s traditional puja prayer ritual. He began the practice four years ago, after Trump allegedly appeared to him in a dream.
Bussa Krishna prays to his statue of President Donald Trump. Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images.
