This work takes shape from Juhani Pallasmaa’s essay The Thinking Hand.

“The hand is not merely a faithful and passive executor of the brain’s intentions; on the contrary, the hand possesses its own intentionality, knowledge, and skill.”

“The hand at work expresses the true versatility of its actions, as well as its direct unity with the goal-oriented mind, together with its extraordinary independence and capacity for autonomous thought.”

“Drawing is at once a process of observation and expression, of giving and receiving. It is always the result of another kind of double perspective; a drawing simultaneously looks outward and inward, toward the observed world and the imagined one, and into the artist’s personality and mental world.”

“In English, the verb to draw also means to pull out, which highlights another significant aspect of drawing: its nature as a means of extracting, revealing, and giving form to mental images and intimate sensations, just as it is a way of reproducing the external world.”

“Creative work has two simultaneous focal points, the world and the self, and every profound work is essentially a microcosm and a self-portrait.”