Dirty Hands

Dirty Hands

I recently experienced my 15 minutes of internet fame with these pac--man-esque rings that I made, but received loads of flack via comments on various websites about how disgusting my thumb was.

What's coincidental is that just a few days before the whole "dirty thumb" debacle, I put out a call on my blog asking for artists to send me photos of their hard worked hands. I only got a few, and am still looking for more. Here are some I received, and a few more I found on the internet. I like to call the wee series, "By Our Hands We Live."

My lovely hands.

Wool dyer extraordinaire, Gail Callahan's hands

which produce wools like this:

Hands belonging to a pastel artist I found on Flickr.

A printmaker's hands, via Flickr.

 

And lastly, a very cool poster by Roland Tiangco, that you can only make visible by rubbing inky hands over. Via Printeresting.