Two Arms Rest

Drawn in 2002. The sketch is called “Fatigued” which I drew from the Punjabi translated version of “Selected Stories Of Leo Tolstoy”. The story was “Akewe De Marre”. The book belonged to my father’s personal library in which he has many of the early Russian translated literature including Maxim Gorky, Hamzatov and Anton Chekhov.

Song is written by me or I wonder if its just a rendering. Work all day long in the farm and get soiled into soil and then lay flat on the grass under the partial shade of a tree. There will be sleep, restlessness and an eerie feeling surrounding you. That’s the destiny of my people here in Punjab, so called farmers. Its not us sitting on computers all day long who have got Earth more into relation but its them who have got more closer to the Earth. “Their body warms the Earth”

Dedicated to my father who has provided me with such sensibilities and with such books and such arts of the human kind.

AFTERTHOUGHT: My body warms the earth.