For 35 years, Kamui Mintara (Playground of the Gods), by Ainu sculptor Nuburi Toko and his son Shusei, has stood on Burnaby Mountain as a testament to the “goodwill” between Burnaby and its sister ...

In South Dakota’s Black Hills, there is a humongous mountain carving in progress called the ‘Crazy Horse Memorial’. Envisioned by Polish American sculptor Korczak Ziółkowski back in the 1940s, when ...

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the only experience any living person had with carving mountains into art was Borglum himself, at Stone Mountain in Georgia. Although he did not complete that project, a number of techniques for ...

He hired sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who had worked on Mount Rushmore, for the project that would go on to become the world's largest mountain carving. While people usually marvel at this ...