Art and tech

I originally wanted to scan my face with my scanner but for some reason my scanner couldn't connect to my computer so I used the scanners at school. I didn't trust the scanners enough to put anything other than my hands on there, so I came up with a new idea involving my hands. Before I get to that I wanted to make sure I had a lot of hands to choose from so I scanned m hand a few times and Printed different sizes.

The longest part was cutting each hand out, I ended up printing more than what I needed but I didn't know how much I would need. So yeah that was fun. I also high five a few of my hands after they were cut out to keep my morale up cutting all these hands over and over and over... I may have gone insane while doing this. Also it was cool seeing my hands in different sizes and comparing them.

These next two pictures is me putting the hands together coming up with ideas on how they should react to each other. I did have something in mind but I also wanted to see how it would look all together.I glued some of the hands together as you see below where the hands are grabbing each other, this was the biggest idea I had in mind that I started off with. More of a unity type of idea in a since, but that didn't really crossed my mind at the time. I was trying to go for a cool looking collage type of thing, which I do think I did but I'll explain what I see in this piece and how I feel about it in the last paragraph.

So here is the finial piece, I ended up adding 2 to 3 layers of hands because I didn't want the white to show. I feel like if I only did 1 layer or at the very least left some hands out it would look how I wanted it to turn out, but I'm also glad I didn't do that. My first thought on this piece was disturbing in the since that it reminded me of chaos in society, which made me enjoy this piece more because now I was thinking about how this made me feel. I felt like even though there were a bunch of hands reaching out for each other helping each other in-between them were hands trying to help themselves pushing the other hands away. So my mind  set was in a negative way comparing these hands to society, but then as I looked at this piece again taking out of the car I saw hope. Instead of this chaotic  mess of hands only looking out for themselves I realized that the hands that are working together reaching out for each other stood out more to me, at least when I looked at it this morning. I'm not sure if it was because of my mood or what but this made me think how people could see different things in the same artwork and now I would like to see what everyone else thinks of this.