the dalai lama visited the state recently and thats how he hit upon the idea of crafting his bust berhampur so stop waxing eloquent about madame tussaud and her fabled images of bollywood stars heres a new soap art to turn heads moharana has just finished engraving netaji subhas chandra boses image on a piece of soap they are for my personal collection he said adding but if i get to meet the people whose images i have crafted i will definitely gift it to them moharanas elder brother an artists has been his greatest inspiration its my hobby to create images on anniversary eves said moharana a native of surada in ganjam there were two sand art pieces which were really appreciated one on the conservation of olive ridley turtles and the other on the threat posed to elephants because of their shrinking habitat but heres a sculptor from ganjam who prefers to work up images with lather and bubblesmeet 24yearold satya narayan moharana who loves crafting visages of eminent personalities on soap bars artists have employed almost every conceivable medium from rice grains to wax and sand to etch figures and faces of great men and women it will be his tribute to the national leader on the eve of his birth anniversary on saturday his soap of fame has an impressive list of names like that of president pratibha patil spiritual leader dalai lama utkalamani gopabandhu das utkal gourab madhusudan das and mahatma gandhi i do not have any formal training though he said but even before he decided to make a bar of soap his creative canvas he sculpted some beautiful images with sand i started learning the art from him they were huge crowdpullers on beaches i am not doing it on a commercial basis a student of binayak acharya college he took about oneandahalf hours to craft the 4inch image