AKA Art Productions
15Kathmandu · 2025

Dr. Lakra, carved in black stone in Kathmandu.

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Dr. Lakra drew a column of creatures: a monkey on a coiled cap, a skull held between two hooded cobras, a ringed spine, and a crocodile curled around a lotus base. We took the drawing to stone carvers in Kathmandu and had it cut, by hand, in black ballistic stone.

Each part was roughed out of its own block with hammer and chisel, the artist’s printed drawing on the floor beside the carver, then refined, fitted and finished. Revisions travelled between the studio and the workshop until every scale and ring matched the drawing.

From the block

A carver with hammer and chisel seated on the workshop floor, the artist’s printed drawing beside him and the carved column and monkey head on the ground
The carver works from the artist’s drawing, on the floor beside him.
A block of pale stone roughed out into the first shape of the crocodile
The crocodile, roughed out of the block.
A rough block with the round base marked and cut flat at its centre
The round base, cut into a block.
The ringed column lying on stone dust beside a sledgehammer and a chisel
The ringed column, with the tools that cut it.

Assembly

The finished crocodile curled on its round base in the workshop
The crocodile on its base.
The ringed column set on the crocodile’s back
The column set on the crocodile.
The finished sculpture seen from the front: monkey, skull between two cobras, ringed column, crocodile and lotus base
The finished piece, front.
The finished sculpture seen from the side, showing the cobra hood and the crocodile’s scales
The finished piece, side.

Turning the finished piece

The finished sculpture, turned in the workshop, July 2025.

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