5 Wooden HANDSHAKEs

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Five wooden handshakes — made from the fence boards that once divided two homes.

By Jason Koharik, March 19, 2020.

All profits from any sale of these five pieces will go to a magical group of educators teaching children through love and creativity. - From the artist.

Simply, these are an acknowledgement and an awareness that an ancient powerful gesture, historically symbolic between two people, changed overnight. A gesture of friendship, of forgiveness, a greeting, an offer of help, an unbreakable bond, and an agreement, became again, a powerful gesture. A symbol of carelessness, fear, disease, anxiety, an act of negligence, and act of defiance. Shame.

Abraham Maslow, psychologist, defined a list of human needs that people now call the Hierarchy of Human Needs. He published this list in 1940s, and it has become the utmost reference of Human needs.

However, a lot has been learned about the human brain and body since then.

Among the obvious physical needs such as food, shelter and sleep, exists the requirement of both physical and emotion connection with other humans, for the release of certain hormones such as oxytocin.

Human touch is so important that when we are young, our brains do NOT develop correctly without it. So important in fact, that an overwhelming percentage of terminally ill and hospitalized humans miraculously recover upon the touch of a loved one.

Price
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Size
36”W x 30”D x 42”H