We live in a giant bubble of images. Accelerating imaging technologies produce an unprecedented abundance of photographs, distorting our sense of reality. An illusion of the real emerges. Our eyes are now unreliable. I let go of my eyes as the agent of seeing, letting my hand take on that role instead.

I use the traditional molding and casting techniques to take photos of my fingers and hands. I attach the silicone replicas on my hands. I look at myself in the mirror and press the shutter.

A paradox emerges in the process: The more surreal the camera-holding hands look in the image, the harder it becomes to distinguish these uncanny appendages from my real hands. As images of the hand create illusions of the unreal and immaterial, the seeing hand illuminates the materiality and indexicality of photography through a deeply embodied experience.