I am working on finding proper ways of presenting all the incoming art work and on making sure, that people's efforts will be seen and heard.
Here is a list of what "Bloody Hands: means to people, what they associate with it, in no specific order:
- taking responsibility for violence in this world by confessing to implicitely co-commit as human
- a fashion statement
- the result of blood involving sexual acts
- HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases
- "heart blood" that shows on the hands as victim of unrepeated or mistreated love
- crime, murder, assasination as a heroic act and justification thereof
- reference to the currant BP oil disaster
- menstrual blood, fertility and feminism
- reference to Jesus and the stigmata
- reverted biblical washing hands in innocence
- vampirism, zombies and other undead
- leaving identifying traces
- innocence via not leaving fingerprints but only stains
- sign for equality of races (same blood color, different skin color)
- desire to live as one humanity and being connected
- war
- a sign of life
- sign for being a freak
- accepting guilt
- Adam and Eve (and cognizance)
- sinning
- economical statement
- homosexuality
- healing
- admonishment
- repent
- cooperation
- embarrassment
- party promotion
- beauty
- purity
- the apocalypse (and going down of the world)
- hopelessness and helplessness
- injuries and pain
- serial killers
- death penalty
- people have so far colored their hands with paint, lipstick, hair dye, red beets, human blood, theater blood.
- to be continued
