a handprint made in concrete is just the image of a hand, itβs not the real thing. or, itβs the absence of a hand, more than anything, the negative space. the casing around where it should be. itβs an indent that was made from something real - that could not have existed without something real - but itβs not the real thing, itβs just trying to be. maybe itβs not even trying. you put your hand there with your mother and the concrete remembers, and the handprint doesnβt even know why it exists, it just does. if we can make copies and not-things from real things in the world, whoβs the say the world couldnβt do that itself? does it even need to know why?















