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| Brand: NOVICA
Category: Kitchen
Buy New: $109.95 (On sale from $225.95)
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 1 x 13 x 17
ASIN: B0009G4MUY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-3 weeks
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| Features:
| • | Delivery by February 14th guaranteed with STANDARD shipping if order received by 1/28/2008. Delivery by February 14th guaranteed with EXPEDITED shipping if order received by 2/6/2008. | | • | Handmade by Kraisorn Chokpichit | | • | Ships from Thailand within 7 days | | • | Arrives framed |
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Product Description
NOVICA, in association with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-kind gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by master artists and artisans throughout the world. Looking at the world beyond, this elephant expresses loneliness. Kraisorn Chokpichit enjoys spending time at elephant conservation camps and has come to understand the noble pachyderms. Chokpichit admires what he deems as a most human expression of sentiment in elephants; his lens is honed to the nature of elephants and captures in this photograph a sense of boredom and sadness. Elephants have long been revered in Thailand for their intelligence, memory and pleasant nature. They would lead armies in to battle or assist men in logging activities. However the advent of technology and the regulation of the logging industry has meant that people no longer have a need for this noble beast, and many previously domesticated elephants have been abandoned to fend for themselves. Likewise, the elephant population in Thailand has decreased. Camps have been established as sanctuaries for elephants, and Chokpichit visits them regularly, finding delight and fascination in the photographing of elephants. Chokpichit uses Ilford black and white film which he develops on Kentmere paper. Features a plastic frame and a glass panel. Artisan Info: "My name is Kraisorn Chokpichit, I was born in Bangkok on May 20, 1966. I come from a cow farm in the province. When I was 17 or 18 years old, my father
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