May 27 1999

May 27, 1999

Piece description from the artist

Lifelines is a response to a world preoccupied with identification through passwords, pins and codes.
The hand is the departure point for this project.
Fingerprints are entirely individual and traditional proof of our identity.
Including the hand-print and hand gestures the person is more fully
exposed. Lifelines can be read, revealing the individual's past and future, while the hand gesture reveals aspects of their nature and personality.
This is something our digital identity fails to provide.
Participants were asked to choose place their hands on a high resolution
scanner. While some felt friends and family were necessary to help identify
themselves, others chose to go solo. By processing in black and white ethnicity become irrelevant. The fine lines in the image have the quality of an etching. What the viewers see is not only a hand portrait, but an impression of a life lived, left behind.
The hands are titled by date of birth with no identification by gender,
race, cultural background or religion. These hands should be seen closely
grouped together communicating like an extended family, a community of
hands. In these times of racial, religious and cultural disparity these hand
portraits simply talk about us, the human race.

Other works by Neal Panton

About Neal Panton

Cranbrook, Canada

Neal Panton is an Award winning Fine Art Photographer, an accomplished theatrical and travel photographer & portraitist.
Neal has been published in more than 25 countries with 18 solo exhibits & 60 group exhibits in Canada, Europe, the USA and South America.
Neal was born in Hamilton, Ontario. Neal has also called Toronto and Vancouver home andnow resides in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada. Neal spent 6 years in Ecuador employed as a photojournalist for Reuters and as a Photography Professor at the Universidad de Quito, Ecuador.
Neal’s photography is very quiet, like snow crunching underfoot in the dead of a winter night. His photography inhabits a wordless world where he shows you how his subjects feel when you touch them, how every detail and texture resonates.
He invites you to discover your own unique connections to his work.

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