The hand-carved sculptures will be preserved at Lalbagh and displayed at its Open Air Wood Museum.
Credit: Horiticulture Department
Bengaluru: The 15-day national wood carving workshop, launched in collaboration with the Karnataka Shilpakala Academy, during which fallen trees at the Lalbagh Botanical Garden were transformed into intricate sculptures, concluded on Friday.
The old trees have been given a new form thanks to 48 sculptors from across Karnataka, who worked relentlessly during the workshop to give the raw wood an identity.
Among the trees used for the initiative, some almost 150 years old, were mahogany, silver oak, and eucalyptus. The trees were among those brought down by rain and wind.
The final 26 sculptures feature a peacock, a mother with child, snakes, wild mushrooms, and a saint, among others. All the sculptures will be preserved and displayed at the Open Air Wood Museum within the Lalbagh premises.
The museum currently houses sculptures from the 2018 workshop. The sculptures are laminated every two years and maintained using a concoction of chemicals.