Far from the city noise and crowds, in a village Kruscica near Vitez, 52-year-old Omer Beso has turned his home into a small workshop in which he makes different objects from wood with his own hands, from wells to chairs, from whose sale he lives.
Wooden wells, swings and chairs are just some of the carved wooden objects that are in front of his workshop in which, as he says, spend most of his time. Beso started with wood carving in 2008 when he spent 32 months in the Penal and Correction Institute Zenica because of a penalty.
From boredom to hobby
“You are bored, you are interested in something, I applied there and people have accepted me. Those were people who have worked earlier and had a higher penalty, I worked a little bit with them because I wanted to do with wood. I loved it immediately, and I have never left the workshop, as much as time allowed me, I have been there“, Beso recounts his days in prison.
During that time, as Bese says, in the “DIY“ section, he discovered his talent for carving and drawing. In June 2011, he finished his prison sentence and immediately after returning home he dedicated himself to woodcarving. Omer who could not even imagine that he will become the master of woodcarving who makes treasure chests, peskuns, tables, chairs, calligraphic articles and all that, as he says, can be imagined.
“That is love from wood. Anything I imagine about wood, I will make“ says Omer in a talk for Anadolu Agency adding that the production of wooden objects is his only, modest source of income.
“Only a small income, I do not have anything else, I am a demobilized soldier and I am not employed“, Beso was saying.
Love for wood prevails in his life, and as he said, he spent whole day in his workshop because it job fulfills him.
From morning to night, until 8 or 9 o’ clock during the winter, and during the summer up to 23 hours when the weather is warm, sometimes I stay in a workshop that much“, said Beso.
(Source: klix.ba)
