Impossible Hand

Impossible Hand is the origin point of the entire project—a symbolic deck, a psychic map, and a quiet prophecy. These images emerged before my husband Tom’s death, yet they carried an uncanny intuition about what was coming. In hindsight, they form a visual language of foreshadowing, instinct, and emotional truth long before those truths could be spoken aloud.

This series explores the idea that our inner knowing often arrives first, through imagery, metaphor, and pattern—long before the conscious mind can interpret it. Each card-like composition in Impossible Hand functions as an archetype: a distilled representation of roles, tensions, emotional currents, and psychological forces shaping both Tom and me inside our shared life.

Within these works, I begin to understand the subtle architecture of our relationship:

- the roles we inhabited without naming them,

- the burdens we carried for each other,

- the cycles we repeated,

- the dangers we sensed,- and the ways we prepared ourselves, unconsciously, for rupture.

The series is titled Impossible Hand because these images feel like a set of cards no one should have been dealt—yet there they were, a sequence that only revealed its meaning in retrospect. What once appeared surreal now reads as psychological truth: a story told in code, intuition, and symbolic logic.

This body of work asks:

How do we recognize the signs we create before catastrophe?

What does the subconscious reveal when the conscious mind is not ready?

And what do we learn when we look back and finally understand the messages we once made only by instinct?

Impossible Hand is both a beginning and a warning, a prophecy and a mirror,

the first whisper of the universe that would become Weight of Witness.