It took many years for Moaz Nadeem Khan of Karachi to learn the art of carving a piece of chalk into beautiful sculptures with the help of a fine needle, a scale or a pin.
Muaz is a student of Bachelor of Business Administration at Jamia Sindh Madrasah-e-Islam, Karachi.
Regarding his art, Moaz told Independent Urdu that ‘it is unique.’
‘If you compare it with sketching, any extra lines can be erased while sketching,’ he says. While making a sculpture with chalk, if any extra cut is made, the whole sculpture is lost.’
In such a case, Muaz has to rebuild the statue.
Moaz said that ‘I was fond of drawing and sketching since my school days and had a creative tendency from my childhood.’
“I discovered in myself the ability to make something out of chalk,” he said.
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Explaining this, he said that ‘when I was in the sixth grade, the holidays were going on after Bakr Eid. We used to go to school but the teachers were not there. In this leisure environment, I had the opportunity to make some things with chalk, so I felt that I had this ability.’
Moaz said that ‘I have been making works of art with regular chalk since 2016. But it improved a lot during the coronavirus pandemic when I had more time for this hobby due to the lockdown and online learning activities.’
He said that ‘no special tools are needed to make sculptures out of chalk, but if I get a blade, a scale or any sharp object, I carve the chalk and make sculptures out of it.’
In the beginning, people didn’t appreciate Moaz’s art and called it a waste of time, but now according to him, ‘Whenever I put a picture of my artwork on social media, people appreciate it.’
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2024-10-01 11:42:22
