---
title: "Butterfly Hands"
url: https://sentient.art/edition/butterfly-hands-unique-artworks
description: "In the poignant copper etching “Butterfly Hands”, the Artist melds geometric precision and deeply-seated emotion, crafting a narrative that is both persona"
lang: en
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# Butterfly Hands

Edition Size:

1

Artist Copies:

2

Year:

2018

Dimensions:

200 x 60 x 3 (cm)

Materials:

Etched Copper

Image: Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff, Butterfly Hands, Etched Copper, 2018 (https://fgxztnkqkimoutnckwrs.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/edition-images/edition-3c3908d7-e1aa-47db-b724-4163612d1aaa-compressed-1779669521003.jpg?width=1600&quality=85&resize=contain)

In the poignant copper etching “Butterfly Hands”, the Artist melds geometric precision and deeply-seated emotion, crafting a narrative that is both personal and accidentally whimsical. The artist asked their mother to pose, imagining holding them as an infant, intending to encapsulate a fragment of their own childhood within the intentional mathematics of triangular etchings.The result, however, gently defied the meticulousness of the artist’s typical work in a curiously Freudian manner: two left hands cradle the imagined infant. Pointed out only post-creation by the artist's step-son, this incongruence unveils a fascinating, unplanned vulnerability in a work originally rooted in methodical geometric etching.It offers an intriguing perspective on the intersection of mathematical art and the fluidity of memory and emotion. "Butterfly Hands" stands as a testament that even within the rigid confines of geometry and planning, the subconscious may flutter, revealing unexpected, gentle insights into the personal realms from which art springs forth.

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