During the presidential election, artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada went big and created a massively oversized portrait of Barack Obama on a Spanish beach front made from gravel, sand and pebbles. It measured longer than a football field and was designed with the intent of being viewable from Google Earth. The artist is now offering the ‘EXPECTATION’ project in a more manageable size, as prints: one vertical (21.7″ x 31.5″), one horizontal (31.5″ x 25.6″). They were released as an edition of 250 and come signed/numbered. Click below for the vertical version of the president’s face made out of dirt.
Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada sculpted a gargantuan portrait of Barack Obama on a beach in Spain out of gravel, sand and pebbles that is bigger than a football field, measuring 140 yards long by 80 yards wide. The ‘EXPECTATION‘ project is described by the Cuban-born, NYC based artist as a “large ephemeral sand painting” designed so it could be seen from Google Earth.The oversized work was meant to convey both the “global impact” of the U.S. election and the “symbolic power” it holds for people around the world. But despite the monumental work, the artist says he’s not in the tank for Obama, and described why he specifically chose this medium:
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