In Katherine C.S. Borck’s piece The Hands of Time she shows the never ending cycle of life itself. Integrated into this cycle is life, love, and death; things that we all experience as humans no matter when or where we were born and raised. The hands represent not only time, but relationships between people. Each of the hands have certain words incorporated into them having to do with one of the three themes: Love, Life, and Death. The relationship between the two hands is best shown with the theme of Love, where the words constantly represent a feeling of regret and dismay towards the relationship with each other. The appearance of a clock brings forth the ultimate theme of Time, for time is what the cycle of life continues within.
