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Barack Obama Sticker Portrait
About the work
To congratulate Barack Obama on assuming office as the 44th President of the United States, Dr. Darla Nageswara Rao created a large portrait using colour stickers cut to bindi size.
Work ran from midnight of 31 December 2009 through 16 January, roughly ten hours a day, using 33,268 stickers in six colours. The piece drew international photo-agency and press attention.
Key facts
- Period: 31 December 2009 to 16 January (about 10 hours/day)
- Support size: 25 × 35.3 inches
- Stickers: 33,268 total (black 5,083; orange 6,860; yellow 1,920; ash 10,920; blue 5,893; red 2,592)
- Medium: bindi-sized colour stickers on white paper
Public impact & highlights
International visibility (including Getty Images coverage referenced in media links)
Limca and India Book of Records among recognitions
Established sticker/bindi mosaic as a major strand of his practice
Photographs
Certificates
41 certificates and record entries received for this concept; 20 shown below.
