Salavat Fidai used to be the manager of a big company in Ufa, Russia, but last year lost his job because of the economic crisis in the country.
But rather that looking for another office job, he decided to dedicate himself to art instead.
Well, he certainly doesn’t lack artistic ability.
“I used to paint a lot during my school years,” he told Epoch Times in an email interview. Also, both of his parents are professional artists and art school teachers. “They taught me everything I know,” he said.
But Fidai had one very specific talent of his own. When he was around seven or eight years old, he picked up some chalk at school and began to chisel it into tiny sculptures. Apparently, it was something he had a knack for.
And so, many years later and freshly unemployed, he gave his childhood hobby another shot. This time, he started to experiment with the graphite cores of pencils.
