Forever Living Hands is a photograph by Guy Ricketts which was uploaded on February 15th, 2013.
Title
Forever Living Hands
Artist
Guy Ricketts
Medium
Photograph
Description
"Hands"
Hands live to caress and love.
Hands live to fight and die.
Forever living hands, forever exploring are hands.
Remarkable hands, storied hands.
Hands, hands can build.
Hands can mold, shape, and speak.
Hands can grasp for the heavens, touch it and believe in the make believers.
Through the fingers thoughts explode as pen touches paper.
Tones and melodies erupt from inner emotions becoming reality.
Heart and soul become one as fingers scrawl quickly, feverishly.
Pounding blood surges through the fingers forcing the pen onward, causing tears to fall from an eye.
Truth flows from the mind; the hand transports it into being.
Embracers of the brush, digits move carefully following intricate lines drawn on canvas.
Colors blend together, vibrant, beautiful, soaring to mosaics of sky and water.
The calming sense of touch slows the scene until order graces the fabric.
Forgotten til their lost.
Forgotten until they are crippled, hands are taken for granted for their life giving talent.
Bent and crooked they are silenced from the song they once sang.
Memories now distant are relegated to the wall or museums.
Dusty shelves house the books of the once pulsating, vital, movements that the hand generated.
Hands have saved lives and taken them just as easily.
They create the saviors of life as well as the purveyors of death.
Creating and destroying with a single move a finger can move mountains or search the unknown heavens.
Hands live to caress and love.
Hands live to fight and die.
Forever living hands, forever exploring are hands.
~ Bruce Alan Humphrey
Uploaded
February 15th, 2013
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Comments (15)
Guy Ricketts
Thank you for featuring this image in Orange -Yellow- Red Photos and Paints group, Colette.
Anne-Elizabeth Whiteway
Guy, This is quite an outstanding, unique and memorable image. The tones in this are so beautifully done. The words with this are so memorable as well. Thanks a million for your kind and encouraging comments. F/V
Tautvydas Davainis
there is a unique quality about this piece that keeps the talented work… Harmonized color ... well defined objects and structured composition.~Tautvydas:)
Colette Hera Guggenheim
Excellent Guy,I made aswell a fantastic serie with hands in the year 2005 ,V/F + Feature for your Forever Living Hands .
Carl Rolfe
there was a great quote from Brett Whitely [ one of the greatest painters of the 20th century ] when he was asked which sense he would hate to lose, his answer ... his hands. great work Guy v
Nadine and Bob Johnston
Congratulations on your Publication in ARTIST NEWS an Internet Publication ! F
Arjun L Sen
Guy, this is undoubtedly kne of your best and most significant compositions, ably supported by a brilliant quote fv