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Height: 3.07m, Length: 5.57m, Width: 1.9m |
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Galvanized mild steel, recycled rubber tyres |
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Nomkhubulwane is the Zulu Goddess of rain, nature, and fertility, and is regarded as the Mother Earth. She is believed to be capable of changing into different types of animals. The name Nomkhubulwane means "she who chooses the state of an animal". In the olden days the Zulu's would plough their fields and have a special one which was ploughed by the whole village collectivelly and was never weeded or harvested right up to the next ploughing season and the cycle would resume again. I believe there were Nomkhubulwane festivals that were held I am not sure though if it was during ploughing or harvest times.
“This elephant has been woven out of recycled motor car tyres. It was designed and built to go to WILD9 – the 9th World Wilderness Congress – in Merida the Yucatan, Mexico. It is made in collaboration with the Magqubu Ntombela Foundation and the wilderness movement, under the patronage of Dr. Ian Player, world renowned conservationist. This is one of the initiatives of the Human Elephant Foundation to explore visual and conceptual relationships with individuals and collectives that are working with issues related to the earth. This elephant serves as a creative symbolic reference that calls people to new imaginative conversations with our ailing co-existence with other living things. She forms part of a collective of other life-size elephants that are currently placed in the world to catalyze such conversations.” Andries Botha, August 2009
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