.Mixed media 2001

Many Hands was a site specific piece created for the bell tower of St Peter's church, Barton-upon-Humber for the Art at St. Peter’s exhibition.

This piece is the result of a process which involved photographing the hands of local shoppers, store keepers and stall holders during the Farmer’s Market in Barton on Humber, as well as approaching other local people to have their dominant hand photographed. I then asked participants to come up with a word or very short phrase to describe ‘the most significant thing that their hands had done or felt that week’.

Hands are an expressive as well as useful part of the body, around which many metaphors and associations may be made; they can communicate a great deal about what a person is feeling and experiencing at any given moment. This piece explores some of the relationships that we have with ourselves and our environment through our hands