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Ganpathi

Photo courtesy of Nathan Grady, Lawrence University.
India, Fall 2009

This was taken on the final day of Ganpathi, the raucous and fascinating 10 day festival devoted to the elephant-headed god Ganesh.  It pictures a group of artists making temporary street art with colored sands near the beginning of the Immersion Procession of Ganesh. The incredible thing about this art was its fleeting lifespan: it was to be trampled by millions of feet in about a half hour, but that did not dissuade the artists. 

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