Summary
Full Hand is a sculpture of a hand made up of ten horizontal rows of carved wood connected with spikes that run vertically through the construction. Each segment of the sculpture is carved to suggest a series of concave cells. The hand is encased in a specially designed box frame. This work forms a companion piece with Empty Hand, 1970-1 (Tate T07752), which is similarly constructed with interlocking rows of hollow segments resembling fragments of honeycomb. Both works are made with deliberately simple materials. The wood is coarse and although intricately structured the carvings have an informal, hand-crafted quality. Like a three dimensional jigsaw puzzle, each work may be taken apart and re-assembled in abstract configurations, although the framing device of its box suggests the original hand shape is its ideal form… (read more)
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