About Us
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A
message from the owner and founder of Lotus Sculpture:
Lotus Sculpture is my dream come true. When I was 18 and a Religion
major at the University of Richmond I took my first trip to Asia. I
have been addicted to foreign culture and travel since. I have
spent the better half of my adult life exploring the world and enjoying the
people and places where my odysseys have taken me. I was constantly
looking for something that would fuse my love for travel, foreign peoples
and religions, with the reality of life and having a job. When I first
discovered the stone and bronze of South India it was like an epiphany.
These are the people and the statues that I have been searching for all
these years! It makes me so happy to bring these exquisitely made
statues to you.
Click here to read a newspaper article done on
Kyle Tortora the founder of Lotus Sculpture
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The Personal Touch
I personally go to South India and Bangladesh twice a year to
search the best pieces for my home and for Lotus Sculpture. I hand pick
the bronze and stone directly from the artisans who make the piece; the
same people whose ancestors started the famous
chola
and Pala school of bronze casting and have been practicing this craft
for generations. I choose only the best pieces to take home, paying
particular attention to the details. The beauty of the face, the details
in the ornaments, the intricacies of the hands and the feet and the
overall proportion of the piece are what make a piece truly wonderful;
worthy to be sold through Lotus Sculpture and to reside in your home.
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Lunch break with the
sculptors
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Passion
& Pride
The stories and mythology behind all religions
have been my main interests since first reading Herman Hesse's
"Siddartha". The fabulous, mystical and wondrous stories making up
all religious myths and legends have never ceased to enthrall me.
To have the opportunity to travel to India to hear the stories of the
Mahabharata epic, the
Vedas,
the
Bhagavad-Gita and the
Upanishads, from a Brahmin priest.
To have a discussion about the
bronze casting process with the family
who have spent the past four months of their time casting a Nataraja in
bronze. To discover the history, mythology and the culture of a
world outside our western world. To bring the beauty of this world
to you. That is my passion. And that is the passion of Lotus
Sculpture.
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