- July 2, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Photo by Tania Thorne
Above: Kyle Tortora, the owner of Lotus Sculpture in Oceanside, brushes off a sculpture with a brush. July 1, 2021.
Kyle Tortora, the owner of Lotus Sculpture in Oceanside, works closely with sculpture artisans in India.
All of the pieces at the Buddhist and Hindu sculpture retail and wholesale store are carefully crafted.
“Each one is handmade, one of a kind. Artists spend five months on this one statue. Their love and their passion and their belief system and Hinduism comes out in it,” said Tortora.
He traveled throughout Southeast Asia and India, where he found the inspiration for his store.
“This statue of Shiva and Nataraja is what influenced me to start Lotus Sculpture,” he said. “I’m going to find out where these are made, I’m gonna buy them, ship them back home, and build a website.”
For 21 years, Tortora has been meeting Indian artisans and purchasing…
