(Pers. comm. Gary Schneider to Dia Pellegrino, 14 March 2018 - used with permission)
"I began to make my own handprints in 1993, These are self-portraits and simultaneously memorial portraits. I made two imprints of my left hand onto film emulsions. These handprints are photographs made without a camera and are enlargements of the preservation of sweat and heat in the film emulsion. I interpreted these two imprints in the darkroom in an exaggerated fashion, as unique variant prints, to remind me of people I had lost, that I so regretted I had not photographed, to become memorial portraits, a glove for that person to inhabit."
