Thought for the Week: Hands

Trish Carn reflects on hands

by Trish Carn 10th April 2015

Hands can be used in many ways. They can attack or they can succor.

For years I have been fascinated with my own hands. One regret I have is that I didn’t photograph them when I was younger. They were never elegant hands but rather square, practical and capable hands. Now they are wrinkled, though not yet as gnarled as my grandmother’s were.