Hema Tailoring Shop
2018-03/2018-03
Project FUEL
India
Hema was curious, intelligent, and more than anything, open to learning. Recently married, Hema had moved into her in-laws’ house on one condition- they will let her work. She was proficient at stitching and knew how to operate a computer, which led her to open a small tailoring shop in the confines of her house. The advantage of this was twofold- a young girl claiming her independence and sense of identity, while single-handedly solving the village’s problem of the dearth of tailor in the region.
In a gesture honouring her story and determination, we painted a sewing machine on the wall of her house, captioning it ‘Hema Tailoring Shop’.
- Title: Hema Tailoring Shop
- Date Created: 2018-03/2018-03
- Location: Khati, District Bageshwar, Uttarakhand
- Type: Mural
- Contributor: In the second edition of the Wise Wall Project, Project FUEL collaborated with The Hans Foundation to collect and paint the life lessons of the villagers of Khati.
- External Link: The Hans Foundation
- Medium: Weather-proof Exterior Wall Paint
- Project: The Wise Wall Project is an initiative by Project FUEL and FUEL Foundation to document the rural wisdom of our villages and celebrate it through art murals. The initiative transforms villages into living classrooms, turning the walls of the same onto blackboards and canvases that uncover striking yet simple life learnings. The project aims to ignite a movement of transforming the long forgotten villages into open-air galleries, exhibiting human wisdom for anyone and everyone in the world to see and benefit from. In the second edition of the Wise Wall Project, Project FUEL collaborated with the Hans Foundation to collect and paint the life lessons of the villagers of Khati. Khati has now become the second village after Saur, in the recent history to have a documented database of life lessons from an entire community. And as wishful as it gets, the village has now been transformed into a living storybook that tells the tales of Khati, like never before.
- Photography: Jaison James
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