Submissions: What is your story of hands?

This is a call to the socially-aware traveller, artist, writer, and student. We want you to share your work that explores who you are and how you have experienced the work of hands, or the works of the hands of others.

We are looking for poems, photographs, art, and writing in which the reader experiences the versatility and meaningfulness of hands by seeing hands at work, at craft, at labour (domestic, in the field, factory, office); hands in community; hands expressing emotion; hands at love, at birth, at death; hands caring for babies and children; gay hands, women's hands, men's hands, senior's hands, teenage hands, children's hands, animal hands, plant-hands; a day in the life of a hand; the confessions of a left hand; a tribute to a loved one's hands. So much is conveyed and created through hands. We are interested in exploring the full range of what hands can effect.

This project will also address social issues as it explores the differences between the work of hands in developing and over-developed countries. The differences and similarities are valued in terms of images, emotional and imaginative involvement, as well as the evident relational satisfaction or frustration of the people engaged in these activities. This research asks questions such as: who’s doing the task at hand, what is it, what is the relationship between the activity and the body, the person, the family, the culture? Where is this happening and why? What do I know about this, and what would I like to know?

Submissions:

Please Note:

The first deadline of March 1st, 2006, marks the completion of the first stage of the research. The submissions have been posted at: http://corneliashands.blogspot.com

The second stage of research is underway, and new submissions will be accepted at a future date (in approximately 6 months).