Denise Carbonell Gallery
154 Stanton St.
New York, NY 10013
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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.
