Essequibo creative welder aiming to burnish his trade in the capital
Across the various sectors of the country’s economy there are skills that appear to have been set aside as other seemingly more lucrative options arise, that trend accelerating even as the advent of the country’s oil and gas industry, with all that it has to offer, seemingly accelerating that trend.
If the crafting of metal into both things of beauty or objects the possess a greater utilitarian sense of value has not been known to significantly transform the material fortunes of more than a handful of those that have ventured into the metal work trade, there are those who have extracted an alternative aesthetic compensation from practicing the pursuit. Baskarran Bhagwandin is one such person though, these days, he has had little choice but to pay enhanced attention to how his craft can bring him a greater measure of material gain.
For now, appreciation of the material worth of the creations turned out by Basko Metal Works of Charity, Essequibo Coast is limited to a handful of the ‘initiated’ in that community. Accordingly, these days, Baskarran has been ‘changing gears,’ seeking to broaden the base of appeal of his metal creations by taking his creations and his case to a market which he believes has now been rendered more lucrative by economic transformations that continue to enhance affordability, at least among those who may have already been able to take advantage of the country’s petro dollars.
Bhawandin’s immediate priority, he told the Stabroek Business recently, was to seek to acquire premises that would ‘fit the bill,’ both in terms of fashioning his metal creations as well as providing suitable display space within which to parade those creations.