Too Many Hands.

I printed off a few photos for the first time, and everyone keeps telling me that there are too many hands.

“You don’t want it to look cliche,” a friend told me.

And…so what?

The thing is, it hasn’t really become a project yet, so why not make photographs I like, and see what they can become? I happen to love the expressiveness of hands. They show what is valued, what is held dear, what present and what is absent. These images were made this past year, and I never put them together until now, but I want to see where this goes regardless of my “cliche” interests.