“I may not make art every day, but I dream about what I want to achieve as an artist every day, and sometimes that’s enough.” Colleen E. Monette

HANDS

Colleen E. Monette | 10" × 14" × 3" (25cm × 36cm × 8cm) | glass, tin, vintage soaps, buttons, wire, wax twine | photography by Jeff Goble Photography

I am a collector of things—old French things, bits and pieces. I dream about them. It’s taken years to realize that they’ve been waiting to be my art. These wonderful hands are vintage soaps, attached to an old piece of tin using brass wire. I’ve carefully drilled through the soaps to embed buttons, and covered them with an old piece of glass. The entire piece rests on little glass feet. It serves as my bedside tray, collecting its own bits and pieces throughout the day. My hands created Hands, and it’s truly a dream realized.