The Great Elephant Migration

~ MaryG

If your pet an elephant could talk, what would be the first thing it says?

100 life-size elephant sculptures, each hand-carved from the invasive plant lantana camara by roughly 300 Indigenous artisans from India’s Nilgiri Hills and modeled after real, named elephants, are on display for free along Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue Mall. They’re all facing in the same direction—moving as a herd down Comm Ave.

So, what would they say? Thinking…

Maybe, “stick together – we’re all we’ve got”

24 thoughts on “The Great Elephant Migration”

  3. “Stick together – we’re all we’ve got” is exactly right, and the detail that makes it land is that they’re all facing the same way, moving as a herd down Comm Ave. Carved from an invasive plant by artisans from the Nilgiri Hills, and free to walk through — that’s the sort of thing we’d build a whole Boston day around. Thanks for putting it on the radar.

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      1. I wonder where they’re going next. Probably not Wisconsin! We do have one giant mammoth statue made from rebar that I like quite a lot. Not the same, though, I imagine.

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