‘The hand is action: it grasps, it creates, one would say that it thinks sometimes. In a state of rest, it is not a soulless tool, an instrument abandoned on a table or left and fallen down along the body: instinct and will of action endure in it, in a phase of reaction, and one does not need to observe it long to sense the gesture it is about to perform.’
Focillon, In praise of the hand
The hand has been long thought of as a channel of power—it transforms invisible energy into the world of form.
The hand is also the organ of imagination.
There is no fracture between thought and imagination: hands create, they shape both matter and ideas, they create common languages, and dance incomprehensible figurations.
