the wire hands started in the same way that many of my more repetitive pieces have..i found a large spool of black telephone wire on the street. first, i started weaving aces and three dimensional heads out of the wire..i quickly landed on the hand image out of familiarity. in the beginning, i used the process as a period of personal meditation. one hand can easily take between five and fifteen hours of attention to make. i find that they are best made in solitude. i have since made the hands in most colors and izes but my favorite remains the black. people ask me if they are based on specific people's hands, and i always say no. but actually, some of them are based on the memory of some people's hands..and those, i don't show or sell. the wire hands were used extensively in a movie out last year with katie holmes..it was called pieces of april.