Whether it is a tailor’s bench, a carpenter’s tools, an artist’s easel or a sculptor’s wheel, their lives and their tools are an intrinsic part of each other. Each one brings them to life, with power of his mind and hands, laboriously working their magic, creating happiness — a masterpiece
Hours of painstaking labour, his thoughts interwoven into his work, the best part of his life spent at his bench, love and patience intertwining in his creation and hands lovingly moulding a piece of cloth from nothing into something, my mind was submersed in awe. In the little side drawer of his machine, lay spools of threads, stray buttons, a bit of tinsel, some flowery material left over from someone’s shirt – bits and pieces from other people’s lives. While they may have moved on to their next important occasion, but with him, lay little reminders of how he worked day and night to meet a deadline. Maybe he didn’t go home that day, wasn’t there to tend to an important event of his own, was trying to make sure he was there for you – bringing happiness into your life – and rather invisibly.
Whether it is a tailor’s bench, a carpenter’s tools, an artist’s easel or a sculptor’s wheel, their lives and their tools are an intrinsic part of each other. Each one brings them to life, with power of his mind and hands, laboriously working their magic, creating happiness – a masterpiece.
His bench, his life, his bench, our happiness, his bench, a medium to bring life to an inanimate object, to bridge the gap between non-living and living, and in the process, producing a visual treat.
The writer can be reached at saira.70@hotmail.com
Published in Daily Times, January 30th 2018.
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