1.5 SURGEON HAND

then created by means of the unconscious intentionality of the mind rather than the brush as a physical object.16

Figure 5: Study of Surgeon's Hands. Drawing by the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. (Materialas: graphite, gesso, strawboard). Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 1947

These are studies about tools as extensions of the hand. There is a real empathy with the feeling of the tools in the hands.

1.5 Surgeon hand

For a surgeon more than for most people the hand is one part of the body whose function is constantly under observation.17 As Capener writes, 'hands in action reflect so much of intellect

16 Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Chichester: Wiley, 2010), p. 50 17 Norman Capener, 'The hand in surgery', The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 38 B, (1956), 128-151, (p. 128)

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