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