Titled Opposable Thumbs, this illuminated sculpture assembles a chorus of human hands—seen not through gesture or skin, but through the internal framework that gives the hand its form and function. Composed of vintage X-rays arranged in a grid and mounted on a glowing light box, the piece reveals the architecture of bone and cartilage. Small details—rings, fractures, asymmetries—hint at individual histories. But when viewed as a collection, these hands lose their identity as belonging to any one person. They become anatomical diagrams, stripped of context, merging into a shared structure that enables our ability to grasp, signal, and build.

By exposing the hand in this clinical, skeletal form, the sculpture invites reflection on identity, agency, and evolution. The opposable thumb—long associated with our capacity for invention—becomes a quiet symbol of potential. Here, hands are not expressive or personal; they are blueprints of function, captured in moments of exposure and often vulnerability, and reassembled into a portrait of the human collective.