A tribute to the wisdom of hands

The exercise of the hands in the act of creation is fundamental to the human experience and, we could add, deeply healing. 
The narrative power of handmade objects is immense.

When craftsmen associate a rule with their gestures and the forms he creates with their hands, that gesture becomes part of a personal semantics. They are associating a meaning with a form, and by reiterating this meaning, They are developing their own semantics. Recognizing the touch, the hand, means intuiting that semantics.

A handmade object can, in a way, be read.
In the details, irregularities, and imperfections, one can sense the passage of the hands, the human gesture, and the meaning of the story the artisan wishes to convey through the object.

"The greatest artist has no single concept which a stone block does not contain within itself in its excess; and to that only has access the hand that obeys the intellect." — “Non ha l'ottimo artista alcun concetto c'un marmo solo in sé non circonscriva col suo superchio, e solo a quello arriva la man che ubbidisce all'intelletto. In this verse from the Sonnetto 151 By Michelangelo Buonarroti, I have always focused more on the role of the hand instead on the intrinsic concept within the material. The hand that shapes the material perhaps senses what is contained within the matter and must be set free; perhaps even before the intellect comes into play, the hand follows memory and seeks to bring to light its own intuition.

That brought me to believe that hands possess their own wisdom, and that the gestural memory of an artisan is a form of dance, or a kind of poetry.