our hands, part one

I love hands. I like to take pictures of hands, photocopy our hands, paint hands. I think hands are powerful symbols and to me they represent a person in ways that may differ from a persons words or gaze. Hands can be powerful, gentle, sad, pained, violent, joyful. My family is aware of my love of hands and agreed to make hand portraits. I dated mine and since these were made five years ago, I think it is time to make a new set. In these pictures Tessa was not even one, Trenton was five and Kyle and I well, we were five years younger!