Hands Carry Stories
In partnership with Webster House
The hands of participants at Webster House are in these embellished collages, literally and metaphorically. Some participants worked in pairs to create colorful tracings of each other's hands, asking each other what their hands have done. The tracings were filled in with colored pencil and watercolor. Pink, blue, red and green rhinestones were glued on the fingers and wrists to create sparkling bracelets and rings. Participants hand wrote words in their tracings to describe themselves, such as “quiet” and “caring”, share memories that their hands hold and what they’ve used their hands for. One participant wrote “My hands took care of my family. I taught children to read and write.”