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John Choi, or more accurately, John Choi's glassblower hands, are
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Ask Sally Wiener
Grotta what makes a hand fascinating, and she won’t mention softness,
smoothness or elaborate manicures.</p>
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Grace Hatton’s working hands are part of a growing series Sally Wiener
Grotta has assembled. The photographer is looking for more artisans to
be her subjects. RIGHT: <big><b><font color="#ff6600">Sally Wiener
Grotta shot many photos of glassblower John Choi as he worked at the
Banana Factory in Bethelehem. </font></b><b><font color="#ff6600">This
is a display of photos of Choi as they appeared during a previous
exhibit. Grotta’s project, ‘Pennsylvania Hands,’ will be at the
Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton starting Thursday.</font></b></big></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">“All the hands
that I have been photographing are not the glossy magazine hands of
beauty, but they’re honestly hands that work, that have seen life, that
have a great deal of character.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Grotta, a writer
and photographer from Newfoundland in Wayne County, has spent the past
several months visiting crafters and photographing them, with emphasis
on their skillful hands.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">A monthlong
exhibit of her work, titled “Pennsylvania Hands,” will be on display at
the Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton, starting Thursday with an
opening reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Grotta has watched
with admiration as her subjects spin wool, tat lace, blow glass, stitch
quilts or make a thatch roof.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">“I am learning so
much from every single one of them,” she said. “Because of their
intimate involvement with their art form, with their craft, they have
wisdom they developed from their fingertips inward.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Her focus is on
people who create something functional as well as attractive, from
tiles to woven cloth to – this one, she believes, will surprise her
friends – guns.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">“I am adding a
gunsmith,” she said, “but the guns are not for killing people. They’re
Pennsylvania long rifles. At first, I thought I was out of my element,
but then I realized, this is appropriate. We’re talking about what was
necessary to build our society. If I had lived in the 1700s that’s how
I would have had to get food.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">The gunsmith’s
long rifles are sought by historical re-enactors, Grotta said.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Some of the
artisans she has photographed have allowed her to try her own hand at
their crafts, which has only increased her respect for their finesse.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><big><b><font
color="#ff6600">For example, glassblower John Choi, whom she
photographed at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, let her pull a
“gather” of molten glass from a furnace.</font></b></big></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">“You have to keep
the wand turning constantly because gravity will pull the glass
downward into a glob,” she said. “It takes not just coordination, but
strength and coordination.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Whether crafters
work with glass, stone, wood or wool, she’s noticed they have in common
<b>“the discipline, the devotion to their medium.”</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Grotta expects to
return to the artisans’ workshops to follow their progress, and she
hopes to travel beyond the state borders to photograph more crafters,
so “Pennsylvania Hands” will become “American Hands.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">The photographer
recently learned an exhibit of her work is scheduled to be shown at the
Capitol Rotunda in April, and she’s thrilled about that.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Meanwhile, she’s
developing an appreciation for palms and knuckles and fingers – whether
they’re calloused, work-worn, or similar to a relative’s.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">“Marie McCoy-Houk,
the weaver said, ‘Oh my goodness, I have my mother’s hands.’ When she
said that, I looked at my own hands and said the same thing,” Grotta
reflected. “I have my mother’s hands and my sister’s laugh.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">“Isn’t that
wonderful? I have them with me all the time.”</p>
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