The Hand-to-Hand Project
Recently, I've expanded the project to include other artists in a variety of media as a living community dialog. Since January 2006, artists from my city, across the South and the USA, have each signed up for a specific week. They have chosen a news story a day during “their week” and created glove-related art works in response. Go to www.handtohandproject.com Joe Peragine animation 4.17.06-4.22.06 |
Since the beginning of the Iraq War in March 2003, I have been painting a news story almost daily on stuffed white gloves. These gloves depict the newspaper headline, the date the story appeared and my interpretation of the event. Each glove is a "rosary bead" in this on-going, meditation of war witnessing. I use gloves because fingers count, and this is a counting,
time-based
installation piece of unfolding, chronological events. Hands also act for
good or evil, construction or destruction, help or hurt.