This body of work is an exploration into notions of interconnectivity, memory, history, and human gesture. The sculptures articulate instinctive movements and abstract hand gestures that take on nearly autonomous life-like personalities of their own. The models (sitters) act as a point of reference that capture and accentuate natural extensions of implicit communication. These soft sculptures are created through a photo-transfer process on fabric of photographs I have taken that are then stitched, painted and/or adorned. Utilizing the personal narratives of the sitters, along with historical and folkloric narratives I ascribed to them, I create a portrait of them through their hands. The gestures we produce when we speak are not merely random movements used for emphasis but are tied to our thoughts. It’s a bodily action that represents information and thus has an indirect effect on the world.