MIHAIL VOLUME 3

cast the sleeping elephant

10 X 18 ft.
the immobilization dart
The cast in Africa, Ol Pejeta, Kenya
rubber poster for the Milano exhibition
The Times, London
New York Times
Journal de Genevaʼs newspaper, street poster
1979, Blonay, Swiss. edition of 5 prints
1995
1980 - 1987. Mihailʼs Boat House studio,
Lloyd Harbor, Long Island, where the
elephant sculpture was made
The elephant leaving the casting site
A Charter for elephants rights.
We the elephants of the world
In order to ensure our own survival and by virtue of the power and splendor invested in us
do hereby proclaim a nation.

A nation with all the rights and authority of any other.

To be recognized and dealt with as any other.

A Nation that shall reign for all time

Wherever one elephant stands that territory over which it stands is part of the elephant nation.

Wherever one elephant roams that territory upon which it passes is for that moment part of the
elephant nation.

And these territories shall be now and forever inviolable.

The elephant nation claims the rights of all nations

Including but not limited to these:

the right to exist in peace

the right to prosper, grow and multiply

the right to live in harmony with other animals

the right to be recognized by other nations

the right to have recourse to international law

the right to be held free from capture, attack

and murder

These rights and the others declared by the elephant nation at any time in the future are
inalienable.

Let the power and the beauty of the elephant nation be like our own power and beauty.

Long live the elephant nation!

Mihail. Cast the Sleeping Elephant
United Nations Headquarters, New York