we made a post about a 94 year old man,
decorating his village, then today we have just seen the work of 91 year old Anežka Kašpárková,
30 year ago after a lifetime of being a farmer she retired, and since then Kašpárková has used many of the sunny days each
year to make her home village of Louka a little bit more beautiful,
the village is found in the South Moravian
region of the Czech Republic,
she is now an expert on how to decorate window frames, doors
and facades across her village with traditional Moravian folk art, She mostly
works on flowery patterns, giving a fresh feeling to the old facades worn by
time, Kašpárková says that she does her artwork for the
pleasure she gets from it,
this is, however, not new in the Czech
village, other women have done a similar type of decoration in the past
and Kašpárková has worked tirelessly to continue the tradition, Her work
has been celebrated all over the world, with numerous outlets and web pages
sharing what she does. “I try to help decorate the world a bit,” she is
recorded as saying,
given her age, Agnes complains that sometimes she finds
it challenging to paint, but in fact, she has been comfortable enough to climb a
ladder almost every spring and refresh the design on the village chapel, photographs by
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