¡Hi people!

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II

The hand

I chose the hand as first simbology of power: the closed fist is the force, conviction... the power. However, I research others meanings and I found this:

• Idea of activity, potency and control.
• Writings taoists: Treatise of the Golden Flower: alchemical meaning: coagulation and solution. Coagulation: spiritual concentration. Solution: no intervention, free development of the interior experience.
• Even the expression: "MANIFESTATION" in spanish: "manifestación" proceed from the term "mano" (hand).
• In the buddhic canon: Hindus and Buddhits Mudras: CLOSED HAND: dissimulation, secret, esoterism ("The hand of Buddha is not closed; he does not keep nothing")
• Royal emblem; instrument of the skill and control sing.
• Biblical tradition and Christian. The hand as a symbol might and supremacy:
  • Hand of God: receiving the manifestation of his spirit. Receiving the divine force. God in the totality of his might and effectiveness. Protect and destroys. RIGHT HAND: blessings. LEFT HAND: curses. "Fall into God's Hands": mercy, create or annihilate.
  • Putting the hands over the other's hands = freedom forwarded, give up on her, give up on our power.
  • Laying on of hands: energy transfer or potency.
  • Hand as a diferentiating action. Human synthesis: masculine-female; passive in what it contains; active in what it has; using as a weapon and utensil; it's differentiate to the man from the animal; it's differentiate to the objects she takes or modeling.

This information i took from Diccionario de los Símbolos by Jean Chevalier

I think this it was enought to give me an incentive to design and I start to drawing

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Mano que cierra o atrapa. Charcoal on paperboard. 24 x 16 cm

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Mano que cierra o atrapa II. Charcoal on paperboard. 10 x 15 cm

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¡Thanks for reading me!

dianita

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I — Begin of my creative process: POWER > my previous post I — Inicio de mi proceso creativo: PODER > spanish

II "Manos" — Mi proceso creativo: PODER < this post but in spanish