These hand prints evoke many human associations: healing, comfort, vulnerability, strength, and connection. While they are self-portraits of my own hands, they also reflect something universal; a glimpse into the shared, sacred, and deeply human aspects of our existence.
This experimental work is guided by intuition and direct physical gesture. Working at the edge of photography, I created the images by applying developer and fixer directly onto gelatin-based photographic paper with my hands, without using a camera. Because the chemical reactions unfolded slowly and unpredictably on the light-sensitive surface, the process felt almost blind, raw, and instinctive. Touching, brushing, pressing, or striking the paper became a primal act, reconnecting photography to something immediate, physical, and elemental.
