A piece of art on display at the Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar (Nagar) is garnering a lot of attention. Created by 141 women volunteers from across the UK, the 1,125 square foot portrait of Pramukh Swami Maharaj (PSM) has been made by injecting 335 litres of colour into more than 8.5 lakh bubbles.
The bubble wrap painting – which could be the world’s largest such piece of artwork – is part of a tribute during PSM’s centennial birth anniversary celebrations. The bubble wrap painting, its creators say, depicts PSM’s tireless travels, letters and personal counselling that helped inject colour and meaning into the lives of millions of people around the world.
The artwork is made on a 25-foot tall and 45-foot wide canvas using 886 metres of bubble wrap with over 8.5 lakh bubbles.
“Each 5mm bubble was individually injected with colour using a syringe, to ensure that every bubble had the exact amount of paint. In total, the portrait uses 335 litres of paint in 320 colours,” said a member of BAPS management.
The women who created the portrait are in the age group of 11 to 75 and worked for six months to create the masterpiece. Interestingly, none of the participants had ever undertaken such a project before.
Once completed, the dry bubble wrap was glued to wood panels for support taking its total weight to 1.4 tonnes. The completed painting was then cut into 104 individual pieces to ensure that it could be transported to the venue of PSM’s centennial birth celebrations.