With this series, Maha captures tender, sensitive postures that our hands assume in our everyday. The paintings want to collectively create a strong point about the invisibility of women after a certain stage in their lives. Such invisibility manifests in various forms and could trigger different coping mechanisms. Some more problematic than others.

Over the course of researching and identifying her models for the series, Maha chose many women and some men who, finding themselves trapped in the unyielding investment or commitment they made over the years, have taken up some form of mind applicative everyday micro activity in their routine. Like music, knitting, a new skill or a new language. That is the story of all these hands. To convey the grit and the gumption these hands unravel together, she has included a beautiful mix of women (and a few men) she knows from different ages, cultures and circumstances.

Emphatically anonymous, Maha chooses to paint the hands as an anatomical landing point of the strength and solidarity of these women. She chooses to leave out the gaze of the women in the painting, giving the viewer the opportunity to consider the vanishing point theme.

The series is expected to have around 30 paintings. The codes the hands create and convey are exciting for Maha and she aims to capture these in their most earthy humanly expressions.