Hands

Project Details

Hands
Digital photography series printed on acrylic panels.

Size variable. Ongoing

©CLG/2024

Started by chance in 2021, this series has become an ongoing work-in-progress. I am fascinated by hands and how much they say about individuals and their relationships. Hands are quite a unique trait of our species. The texture of the skin, the details of the corrugated nature of knuckles, bones showing through the skin, the protruding of pulsating veins, the length of our thumbs in relationship to the fingers, tension, age…

There is tenderness in hands.

Hands can hold.

Hands build. Make. Cut. Draw. Slice.

Hands can keep others away. Keep you safe. Protect.

We can speak with our hands. Make music. Dance.

Some even believe our fortunes are printed on our palms.

I have been documenting hands. Their beauty. Functionality. Expressiveness. While doing this, I have captured my parents’ hands, the central piece of this series. Holding their hands as they age and in my own way keeping them with me. Living thousands of miles away from them, it has become my way to keep them close. To love them. To honor the way in which their hands held mine as a child and granted me the love, protection, and the support they so generously gifted me. I hold their hands now, in love and gratitude.

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