Estremita Italiane

This body of work was based on my time teaching in Rome in 2002. I noticed, while living there, that the hands of women in Italian paintings and sculptures were idealized, with elongated fingers and smooth features, holding, supporting and praying. The hands of men were depicted with musculature and strength. The resulting work uses the image of hands as symbolic sign language between a woman and a man.

Mixed Media: sanded photographic c-prints, wax, acrylic, dry pigment, mounted on wood