Wash Your Hands

A couple years ago I started photographing graphics of hands I found on signage out in the world, particularly ones containing two hands. I had an idea to use them to create a zine called "Many Hands Make Light Work" (which I might still do someday…), but the reality is that almost all of the graphics with two hands were from bathrooms: hand washing instructions. Not so useful for a project about labor, but strangely perfect for one about a pandemic. "Wash Your Hands" contains 78 instructional icons about washing and drying your hands, collected between 2015–2020, assembled into four 5.5” x 5.5” booklets and an 11” x 17” poster, packaged in a riso-printed envelope.