Sculpture:
Farmer's Hands
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From The Earth was originally underwritten by a grant from The New York State Council on the Arts to cast the hands and farming implements of the vanishing small farmer. It evolved into a multimedia project.

The Artist and the Farmer share a tenuous existence. Farmers like artists think, work and create with their hands. The hands of farmers and artists offer significant insight into the creation of crops and art. Paper, made from anything that grows, is developed through a process of planting and harvesting. Farmers create from the earth. Paper is from the earth. Hence, the hands at the heart of the craft (farming) are cast in handmade paper using the very crops they grow.

Joan Giordano received a grant from NYSCA "The New York State Council on the Arts to cast the hands of farmers in the Sullivan County upstate New York area. She cast the hands of dairy farmers, vegetable farmers and chicken farmers and recorded their voices as they related their experiences, histories and philosophy. In all some fifteen farmers were subjects of this artistic exploration."

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