Studio Friday - Working Hands
My submission for Studio Friday are for working hands, mine and my mom's. Without all the hard work she does for me, laundry, driving, shopping, cooking to keep us all going and freeing up my time to do "fun art things". So it really is a tribute to her and her hard working hands. This paper weight of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning's clasped hands is something she bought when I was 5. I have held it, looked at it. cleaned it all of my life. It now sits on my desk. These are hands clasped in love and hard work.
And then there are mine hands. That are never happy unless I am working. Typing, cleaning, ironing, pulling weeds. But the one endeavour that really makes my little fingers tremble with joy is painting. I don't really care if I am painting a room, a piece of furniture, a piece of art. My spirit comes alive with a paint brush in my hand, paint clothes, paint rags, the smell of paint, and turpentine.
kim....i love this image. so familiar:) ~L.
ReplyDeletethe image of loving hands! Art and happiness passed between these hands! Lovely post!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post and stunning images.
ReplyDeleteI love this post Kim...I love HANDS..one of the things that drew me (among others) to my husband...he has the most beautiful hands! What a lovely thing to say about your Dear Mom...I miss mine! And ..MY hands NEED art...always need to be doing something with my hands!
ReplyDeleteutterly beautiful...your sentiments and your hands...pure
ReplyDeleteI love that both yours and your mothers hands look like 'working' hands, bandaids and all... So telling...
ReplyDeleteI LOVE all of this! Each picture, and how you described it and your mother! Awesome.
ReplyDeleteYou truly have blessed hands.
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beautiful flowers. beautiful assemblage. beautiful hands. beautiful descriptions.
ReplyDeleteIn my language, we have a saying which reads "good health to your hands". I may have translated it badly but you get the idea. We cite this whenever we appreciate somebody's work of any type. When I saw your post, this saying was the first thing that I wanted to say to you and your mother.
ReplyDeleteMay both of your hands keep up the wonderful work they produce for long years to come.
This photograph is so inspiring. What we tend ot lose with age, our sense of wonder, you've exhibited in this photo. We sometimes forget to see the individual parts of things when we are blinded by the whole image.
ReplyDeleteThank you Steph, beautiful observation for my photos!
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