Sachin Sanghe is a software engineer and artist in India. Both of his crafts require precise and unfailing attention to detail. He calls himself a “micro sculpture artist”, which is exactly the right term for what he accomplishes.
Give Sanghe a piece of chalk or a pencil lead and a set of fine-tipped steel tools and he can cut away the excess to render astonishingly lifelike sculptures. I find the one pictured above especially impressive. It shows Prime Minister Narenda Modhi holding an idol of the god Ganesha. So it’s a sculpture of a man holding a sculpture—all inside a mere piece of chalk!
Look at the detail rendered in the beard of Jagadguru Karmayogi Swastisri Charukeerthi Bhattaraka Swamiji, a Jain religious leader!
That Sanghe is able to make such an intricate sculpture of Krishna in a material as fragile as chalk is astonishing.
-via Laughing Squid