la main du futur

No more war.

"Human Beeeeeeing"

"Up To You"

American

Arab-American

Israel

Belgrade, Serbia

...for peace

Blessings to the World

Iraqi Princess

NYPD

"Love is the basis of humanity."

Ethopia

Texas U.S.A. "We don't all agree."

NY, Greece, Uruguay

Vietnamese (Operation Babylift)

Om Shanti

India

Irish

"Think of All the People"

Belgium

Happiness.

"An eye for an eye makes the world blind."

Selection from over 700+ Handprints gathered over six weeks (mid Feb 03 - April 03) in NYC

Selection of 700 gathered hand prints from around NYC spring 2003

"Be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

"mankind is capable of more imaginative solutions than destruction"

"Support the Troops—Bring them Home"

"Clean our hands—no blood for oil—no global dominance"

..."war is so 19th century"

Italy

Argentina

Austria

Syrian-American

Russia

Estonia

"peace is patriotic"

Peace. now. Stephanie

Ella

Participant's Hand with gold acrylic paint

Asian

Kabul, San Francisco, NY, Afghanistan

K B

Jewish American World Citizen

France

Hopi Hand Artifact

Japan

"Before I am black, before I am male, before I am American, I am human."

Turkey

Mexico

"I hope we find the courage for peace."

"spread peace, not war, unite love"

Selection from over 700+ Handprints gathered over six weeks (mid Feb 03 - April 03) in NYC

Denmark

German-American

Ecquador

Puerto Rico

blurred hand print

"Ur, Ctesiphon, Sumer, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Ninevah, Washington?"

Malaysia

Bklyn, NY

Lima, Peru

Brazil

"You can bomb the world to pieces but you can't bomb the world to peace."

"for peace to end war"

Sweden

Iranian Poem

"Love and light and more powerful than fear and darkness."

Philippines

Colombia

Netherlands

Canada

"cure mad cowboy disease"

Peace to all the people of the earth

Domincan Republic

"Freedom takes responsibility"

USA Taiwan couple

Time Out New York - April 2003

Jamaica

"A missed opportunity for West to embrace East"

"The world appreciates this effort of peace."

Korean–American

"The only way out is through." Robert Frost

Poland

back of hand

Ukraine

"Live simply, so others may simply live."

Czech Republic

PEACE

"Hand of Light out streched to you... take it ...feel it... the love... the light.... like rays of God's sun...shine on us now... forever."

Brasil

"Before you judge me on how I judge you... judge yourself on how you judge me... then hopefully we can live as radiantly as we want to be."

"Imposed Democracy is Dictatorship"

US Army National Guard, NY - "Wishing we could all live in peace, but willing to defend our Freedom."

"hands and feet are all alike, but war between divides us."

American of Czech Origin

Selection from over 700+ Handprints gathered over six weeks (mid Feb 03 - April 03) in NYC

Jewish Hamsa

Hand Amulets

Gathering Handprints Washington Square Park, March 2003

Upper East Side NYC—gathering handprints Feb, 2003

Enthusiastic Participant

Gathering Handprints NYC—Spring 2003

Germany

"War is terrorism."

Jewish New Yorker

"The hand that holds is the hand that heals."

"A human hand. Like any other. In America... In Iraq... In China... "

"Peace from Foot to Hand"

Montenegro

Venezuela—"Make Love, Not War."

"End War"

use this (symbol) as a way of life

Member of the Loyal Opposition to Bush's Christian Jihad

"...as a person beging a part of young generation... I want to say, we say No War! Peace!"

Selection from over 700+ Handprints gathered over six weeks (mid Feb 03 - April 03) in NYC

Sicily

London, England

American Patriot and Human

"Oh let hands do what lips do- kiss." Palmers' Prayer Romeo and Juilet

"When people love their children more than their enemy, then we will have peace."

"Peace to All"

"Please do not kill people"

"hands to create and to cure..."

"I love my country even when it is wrong."

"On behalf of my government and country, I am deeply sorry."

Son of Scottish Immigrants "Support our troops—bring them home."

"Peace in Christ"

Looking through Handprints in my studio