✦ The memory of hands

Description

On the surface of a small tin of Coccoina glue — a familiar, everyday object that carries the scent of school days and handmade work — a fragment of an oil painting is fastened with a purple thread. A visual memory recalling the slow, concrete labor of the hands. In the hole once meant for the glue brush, a silver crayon has been placed — a symbol of creativity and potential.

Inside the tin, a long cotton strip cut from an old bedsheet bears an embroidered phrase inspired by the writings of Natalia Ginzburg. The memory of hands is stronger than that of the heart.Hands remember how to bake bread, how to sew on a button, how to mend a toy or light a flame.Let us not forget to use our hands; every gesture holds an ancient knowledge that fades if we neglect it. The memory of hands endures even when the mind begins to falter.

It is an invitation to reclaim manual knowledge in an age where technology lessens our contact with matter and impoverishes the gesture.

On the back of the fabric, small relics of making are stitched. Objects that evoke the spirit of handiwork: a fragment of a wooden comb, a handmade clay whistle, the pencil holder of a compass, a small wooden hand holding a pink stone, a piece of kneaded eraser, a section of a carpenter’s folding ruler, a lead letter from old typesetting, and a piece of cloth-and-metal zipper.

Each element is a trace of labor, a fragment of craft, an echo of the hands that build and mend the world. A small archive of forgotten gestures, enclosed in a talisman-object that guards the wisdom of touch.

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