…I found a way for my finger tips to make a connection with one another, like a shell with one hand completing the other, restoring for me a sense of wholeness, reassuring and comforting.
Notebook
hands…23.03.21
“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand” William S.Burroughs – Naked Lunch
glove community. 28.02.21
Ghosts on the table…
Stitching. 2.02.21
‘An odd sensation when I realise that I tense my hands and fingers and then release them…’ One fist in a cradled hand, resting in its weight and volume. The left hand encompassing and fingers reaching around the knuckles. Tension in the thumb, up into the forearm and bicep.
glove assembly 20.10.20
Stitch 12.10.20
It takes a while to interpret-the orientation of fingers and thumbs. We try a stitch and it fails, we begin again. My daughter has offered her hands- it is a curious hold- the thumb and little finger of the same hand make a gesture- open- with the fingers between folded. An enfolded figure- obscured- altered by the touch of the other hand. The photos sent are detailed, forensic, they seem to want to be understood. They Read More