NYC snow pile carved into ‘crazy’ Snow King sculpture –now it’s a tourist attraction
Now that’s cool! A snow pile was shaped into a massive “Snow King” sculpture on a Brooklyn sidewalk, drawing dozens of people who went out of their way just to catch a glimpse of it.
Roughly 50 onlookers stopped by Sunday to see the sculpture outside the House of the Lord Pentecostal Church on Atlantic Avenue after it was widely shared on Instagram and X.
“It’s very creative, it looks like Poseidon,” said Gautier Ithorotz, who was visiting from Paris. “I don’t know how long it takes to make that, but it’s crazy work. We’re just appreciating the creation,” he added, referring to the sidewalk art depicting the massive face of a bearded, crowned king.
The sculpture’s maker says it represents Lithuanian King Mindaugas.
Three Boerum Hill locals stopped to take pictures before playfully poking its hollow eyes and stealing its nose.
“It looks like Aquaman,” said Clover Li, 25. “I want to poke its eyes.”
“It looks like Little Mermaid’s father,” added Adalia Lai, 26.
“I saw this on the WhatIsNewYork Instagram page and thought, ‘no f-king way,’” said one 23-year-old man, who declined to share his name. He and his girlfriend took a detour from their weekly walk to a nearby Yemeni restaurant just to ogle the melting “Snow King.”
“I think that’s the reason why we decided to come out and walk the two blocks away from where we normally go on our Sunday trip,” the man explained. “It’s an abnormal thing.”
Belarusian artist Henrik Lojka created the lifelike snow sculpture in just three hours.
“He thought the crown would look really nice against the background of New York,” said Viktoria Lahunova, 38, who was translating for 63-year-old Lojka, a former art teacher from Belarus. “He started with the crown, and he went down.”
Lojka shared that before coming to the U.S. in 2021, he sculpted characters from Belarusian history out of sand. He also revealed he had spent 20 days in prison for speaking out against Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko.
In addition to the “Snow King,” Lojka has sculpted two busts in front of the nearby Belarusian Autocephalous Church on Atlantic Avenue, he said through his interpreter.
“There’s a big, huge problem in Belarus: people forget their roots because we’re losing the power of having our language,” he explained. Through the translator, he noted his desire to create works that remind people of Belarusian history amid the dominance of Russian language and culture.
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