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i love how these pieces look together. they are colored pencil on gessoed wood (found) and are 48.5 x 13 inches each. the old tools show all the use, all the work they have done over the years. the people who used them left an imprint, a signature, a ghost of action on them, as did air and water and sunlight. the mannequin hands do reference the relationship between hands and tools when they are hung together... but they show decay and disuse, not proud functionality. they show old age and have lost some of their resemblance to the idealized human appendages they once represented. when a real woman's hands age, you begin to see what they are made of, the bones the tendons and veins. and as these romantic depictions of a woman's hands travelled through life they revealed their insides too-- it is kind of like particle board.