Big Foot Goa

This guide to Big Foot Goa asks how a Loutolim man with an advertising degree ended up carving one of the longest laterite sculptures on record, alone, in a single month. It follows Maendra Alvares from his fine-art training in Bombay through a career running an ad agency, and the growing unease he felt watching Goa's rural crafts and village trades disappear as tourism took over. The carving itself depicts Sant Mirabai, a wandering poet-saint devoted to Krishna, cut straight into the soft red rock of the hillside you are standing on.