CARVING A SOLID CAREER OUT OF SCRAPS

     Chris is an artist.H makes his art pieces from scrap metals.He was unable to continue with his "O" levels after std 8 due to circumstances beyond his control.his uncle invited him to Naivasha to teach him welding  work,which he learnt so fast and started getting orders from clients.His  uncle was impressed.
    After about 3 months, he felt he needed to do something else as this  work was flooded, after all it's not what he wanted to do all his life, so he thought artistically and made art forms from metal scraps.His greatest mentor  is MR.Kioko the famous metal work artist who made the metal elephants that great visitors at Jomo Kenyatta Airport.
      He did not have capital to buy scrap metal in the beginning so he would work on contract for different people and save up little money he made.Once he collected enough, he would go to a second hand market on the outskirts of town and choose the best metal for whatever job he was going to do. The sculpture he was going  to make determined what he would buy at the market.
    Once at the workshop, he works on the different pieces for each part of the sculpture, after this he welds them together.Chris makes a living out of this.

Location: MAKUENI, MACHAKOS, KENYA