Artist Sylvain Tremblay honours UAE founding father Sheikh Zayed by creating the worlds largest portrait made with sand from around the region. Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Today I did the biggest portrait from Sheikh Zayed, never done before.
00:17This is the largest painting, not photo, we talk about painting.
00:21The technique is the canvas is on the ground, I put the white glue and after I drop the
00:27sand from hot air balloon.
00:30And today we are unlucky because the only thing that can be tough to do this experience
00:37is if it's too much windy.
00:39And I talked with Peter, he said all the way it was perfect and today too much wind to
00:44control the air balloon, it was too dangerous.
00:47No I can't, it's done, I had to pull it down, I couldn't keep it up, we tried our best.
00:52I've been floating around here for half an hour, almost breaking the balloon, I was afraid
00:56this will break any time.
00:57One thing is important too, is that we celebrate the UAE culture too.
01:02I think you can see how many people come for this event because they are really a big interest
01:09about to celebrate Sheikh Zayed, he's the founder of the UAE and I think the people
01:18like this person, it was really charismatic and I think that's the way we can.
01:24For me it's really a big success because everybody was here and I think it's the most
01:30important thing.
01:31Just to shake the canvas, we need a lot of people, it's impossible to do by myself and
01:37suddenly the people joined me to put on the glue.
01:40That's the experience because I have a deadline, I was expecting like one hour to put my glue
01:46and finally they say, oh no more, 10 minutes and it was impossible to finish in that time.
01:54And the people decided to come to help me.
01:56I'm really proud about my team, they helped me and they did with me, thank you CUNY!