Visions as perception, Hands as reflection
by Isabel Sierra Salazar
Some would say that a person’s hand is the end part of the arm, at least in concept that’s what we understand. Physically it’s a way to grab and feel, anthropologically the use of hands is what differentiates us from non-intelligent living beings, but what got my attention in hands is what does a hand reflect?
It’s a way to relate to our environment. It’s the most proximate sense we have to connect to our surroundings and our environment, to make tangible what we see and feel. It’s a way to communicate. It’s the symbol of human action. By going through the group’s photo archive I realized that hands had their own language because they denoted different actions and feelings depending on how they where positioned. I wanted to achieve by a visual and tangible medium how hands reflect a variety of characteristics.
I curated a list of words that, for me, the photos described depending on how the hands where placed. The project consists in how the person interacts with the paper by folding, assembling and playing with it, therefore using directly the hands. Then by choosing each word, a short meaning is shown for the person to know what the hands reflect and by seeing the picture, have a visual example of this reflection.
