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Hands are difficult. You would think they would be just five quick lines, but no, they have personalities as intimate as faces. Elizabeth's hands, for instance__hey are fine hands, with long fingers that remind me of tapered candles. A person one has loved__he memory of their hands. Did they flutter or sit still? Dry? Moist? Cool on a hot forehead? What? That is what I wish to express in my paintings. The memory__f the movement__f very particular hands, even though they appear to be unmoving on canvas.
Sarah Ruhl In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
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Hands are difficult. You would think they would be just five quick lines, but no, they have personalities as intimate as faces. Elizabeth's hands, for instance__hey are fine hands, with long fingers that remind me of tapered candles. A person one has loved__he memory of their hands. Did they flutter or sit still? Dry? Moist? Cool on a hot forehead? What? That is what I wish to express in my paintings. The memory__f the movement__f very particular hands, even though they appear to be unmoving on canvas.
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