Home, not home. I left my home in Melbourne to travel to Mildura before the first imposed lockdown to spend this time with my elderly parents. This work was made within the restrictions of this lockdown, the photographs are taken with my old iPhone and worked with needle and thread. Covid Hands is an observation of familial ties, of hands that work, create, nurture and support. Each of the twenty words is stitched into the photographs across the hand in red thread. Red – representing the ancestral bloodline. Like a tattooed stigmata, these hands are marked by the words, in the same way that our corporeal bodies will carry an imprint of the trauma and isolation imposed by Covid 19.
This work was commissioned by Arts Mildura and exhibited in Home2020.
Covid Hands - installation View
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - family
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - altar
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - preserve
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - create
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - corona
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - feast
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - time
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - figlia
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - spirit
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - walk
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - remote
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - escape
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - culture
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - touch
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - parent
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - emerge
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - chance
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - nurture
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - prepare
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm
Covid Hands - terra
Red thread stitched onto photographic paper.
20 images each 25.5h x 20 w cm, overall dimensions 55h x 300w cm