artist
Masashi Mitsui
Buddha statues of marble
In Myanmar, where 80% of the people are Buddhists, making Buddha statues is very popular. Particularly in the city of Mandalay, located in the central part of the country, many workshops specializing in sculpting marble statues border the streets. Artisans carve out a rough shape with an electric cutting tool, and then work on details with chisels and files. At the work site, where the artisans were surrounded by marble dust permeating in the air, they were so covered white, they looked like stone statues themselves.
(Mandalay, Myanmar 2018)