So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away
b. – d. working title
I hadn’t realised how intrigued I was with hands until the final sighting of my Mother’s hands and my first sight of new-born Stephanie’s hands. These two significant images prompted me to explore my fascination.
A portrait of a person, we are told, should be of the face, but to me (and reinforced by the poems Her Hands and With These Hands), a hand portrait can be just as expressive as the face.
I am presenting this as an idea, a starting point to accumulating a narrative of human life. This project is in the very early stages and I am looking forward to where it will take me.
On 4th and 6th November, visitors to the gallery will be invited to have their hands photographed as part of my on-going research. The resulting images can be viewed on the gallery wall the following day.
I hadn’t realised how intrigued I was with hands until the final sighting of my Mother’s hands and my first sight of new-born Stephanie’s hands. These two significant images prompted me to explore my fascination.
A portrait of a person, we are told, should be of the face, but to me (and reinforced by the poems Her Hands and With These Hands), a hand portrait can be just as expressive as the face.
I am presenting this as an idea, a starting point to accumulating a narrative of human life. This project is in the very early stages and I am looking forward to where it will take me.
On 4th and 6th November, visitors to the gallery will be invited to have their hands photographed as part of my on-going research. The resulting images can be viewed on the gallery wall the following day.