Proposition 1: Hands

1) Sit comfortably on the floor. Look at the other person’s eyes. Open one of your palms with trust.

2) Grasp his or her right wrist with your hand. Realize that the other person’s hands are cold.

3) Slap their palm six times until it awakens.

4) Admit that you cannot help those hands get warmer. However, you can wake up the depression of their palms.

5) To comfort the depression, concentrate the blood flow of the arm from the top to the bottom.

6) Encourage the person to grip and release the grasped hand. This action should be repeated as many times as her or his age.

7) Do not overlook any area on the designated palm where present concerns could invade.

8) Seize an understanding that every finger has unspoken present concerns. Rub the palm and each of the fingers until any trace of blood flow disappears.

9) Rub your saliva onto your index finger.

10) Coat the saliva on your finger onto the centre of the other’s palm. Make sure the wrist is firmly being seized.

11) Slowly rotate the finger above the palm's centre in the direction of the Earth’s rotation. It is important to imagine the Earth’s rotation while releasing the wrist at the same speed.

12) The other person will feel warmth spreading on their palm.

13) Take a turn, and entrust your palms to the other person’s hold.

Proposition 1: Hands imagines warmth spreading through a hand exercise called “Make Electricity on Hands,” a children’s game played in South Korea. This project was initially created as a participatory video installation, but given the circumstances as a result of COVID-19 (including social distancing as a fundamental practice to limit the virus’s spread), this project’s hope to encourage touch among participants has become unadvisable. Yet, the images and instructions still evoke the imagined sensations of touching hands and enjoying bodily experiences of physical intimacy, while at once confronting fears around viral transmission through saliva (even that of those we love).