Guest
Dedicated to my dearest friend Manos, returning your repaired Birthday gift =)) A 7 meter steel sculpture of a man and a woman stands on the seashore boulevard of Batumi (Georgian: ბათუმი) on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. Created by Georgian artist Tamar Kvesitadze (Georgian: თამარ კვესიტაძე), the figures move toward each other and merge into one piece every 10 minutes. The Statue of Love sculpture (Georgian: სიყვარულის ქანდაკება) is inspired by the love story of “Ali and Nino“ (Georgian: ალი და ნინო) by Kurban Said. The story is similar to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and tells of an Azerbaijani youth who falls in love with a Georgian princess but dies defending his country. In January 2012, it
