In Praise of Hands

The aesthetics within....any kind of handiwork like sewing or carving or drawing soothes us. We concentrate on what we're doing. Thus the tension within is directed towards the fingertips and released. The hands can make thoughts come alive. Kant called the hands "the visible part of the brain." The hands are the most active part of the body. When man began walking upright, the hands were no longer used to take us there but, instead, to bring there to here. You can walk to a tree. But you need your hands to get to its fruit. Hands give us the ability to manipulate that which is around us. Women's hands, because of their delicate structure, are good at doing works of precision. Even though men's hands are stronger, women's hands are more active. Hands represent the sense of touch.

The concepts of communicating personal ideas through art and achieving some sense of wellbeing as a result of creating art are very old. In my weblog OBLITERATED: She just wanted to blend in, I have tried to document as much as possible anything related to handcrafts,