I looked at his hands, the nerves almost resembling the roots of a tree that has seen life and stood the test of time and captured these two images that will last as long as Steemit stays online!
My grandfather is now 88 years young and has worked a long and hard life as an artist and teacher. I shot these two pictures when he was visited me not too long ago. For his age he's quite fit and goes about his life with zest. Every time, he's over I listen to stories of his childhood and younger days. Life in India in the middle of the 19th century is a stark contrast to our lives today.
He worked very hard and had a multitude of skill sets which I greatly envy. He even built his home himself with these two hands, provided for his family and raised my mother and aunt working everyday of the week!
He painted some incredible paintings over his long tenure as an artist and even had India's greatest Michelin starred Chef, 'Vikas Khanna' as his student. I'll share some of these stories and pictures with you soon!
The craftsman knows what he wants to make before he makes it.…The making of a work of art…is a strange and risky business in which the maker never knows quite what he is making until he makes it – R.G. Collingwood
These hands have seen and created it all!
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