One Hundred Flowers 15 cm

Elephant parade One Hundred Flowers 15 cm

Elephant name: One Hundred Flowers 15 cm
Artist: Li BingBing
Parade: California 2013

Inspiration: One Hundred Flowers, painted by Henri Ly at Li Bing- Bings request. The design of this ele is based on the idea of “100 APRICOT FLOWERS” by Li BingBing. Li BingBing wanted the elephant to be feminine and beau- tiful. She is filming Transformer4 in the USA now and aims to sign the completed elephant with the title “One Hundred Flowers“ because she has won the Hundred Flowers Awards in 2008, which is the Chinese equiva- lent of the Oscars, and the apricot blossom is her birth month flower.

All Elephant Parade replicas are carefully handcrafted in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Due to its handcrafted nature each piece is unique and might vary slightly in design.

Elephant parade events

Elephant Parade is a social enterprise and runs the world’s largest art exhibition of decorated elephant statues. Created by artists and celebrities. Thus Each Elephant Parade statue is a unique art piece. International cities always exhibit the life-size elephants and raise awareness for the need of elephant conservation.

History

2006 was the first elephant parade event by Marc Spits and his son Mike. The inspiration came from Marc Spits’ visit (while logging in Myanmar) to the elephant hospital in Thailand, which constructs prosthetic legs for elephants that encounter landmines. There he saw Mosha, a baby elephant who lost her foot when only seven months old. Thus the idea of the event came to existence.

Did you know?

Elephant Parade is the second largest public art event in the world. Since 2007 there have been events worldwide in 30 cities. More than 3,000 artists have produced more than 2000 unique works of art.

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