(Image based on a widespread childrens rhyming and hand gestures game portraying a church.)
It has been suggested that your spirituality and religion is borne out not through what you profess to believe, but by your actions in the world. Your religion is in your hands, you might say.

Hands are a marvel of biological engineering, allowing us great agency to interact with the world around us and have consequence.

Holding On: an ongoing illustrative series. Moments of activity and ponderings on the human condition.

No AI elements involved. Handmade digital hand art, by Tim_the_Sleeper.

Holding On, by Tim_the_Sleeper

My name is Tim. Why do I add the "Sleeper" part?
Quite simply because I have narcolepsy, and this condition very much affects not just how I live my life, but also how and why I make art.

Narcolepsy was the fork in my road. I've lived with it now for over 20 years, & it will be with me until I die.
Narcolepsy took from me many things - working, driving, social contacts. Instead it gives me: shifting consciousness, hallucinations, & memory problems.

My experience of reality itself is quite literally altered. I do not process information, memory, emotion in ways that that are typical. I am isolated from society by my very existence. At very least, this gives me a pretty unusual perspective.

The liminality of consciousness fascinates me. The blurred edges, where reality is not quite one thing or the other. I am forced to adapt to navigating these murky waters. My experiences with that are the source inspiration for my artwork. Sometimes that art is abstract, sometimes not. Photography interests me. I dabble with more traditional mark making methods. I'm also intrigued by the artistic possibilities of on chain requirements. However, I prefer not to involve with text generated AI, preferring to explore my own visual impulses.

One thing I am trying to explore is that sometimes small things, forgotten & overlooked things, can have equal claim to exist & to thrive: to be recorded & validated as a fragment of the total human experience.

My art is a visual language that I am attempting to learn & use simultaneously. It communicates as clearly as I am able things I've felt to be true about life. I would hope you may experience something by contemplation of my art pieces in isolation. I would hope even more so you may learn something deeper by experience of the wider body. That, however, would be for the viewer to attest.

Tim_the_Sleeper

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