HANDS READY

Learning a sport means memorizing a coded language of hand signals made by coaches, teammates, and referees. In no pressure, no diamonds, Hazel Meyer creates large-scale window drawings and banners that explore the diagrammatic relationship between gesture, instruction, and judgement. Using repetitive techniques that replicate routine, even mundane process of skills acquisition familiar to both athletics and craft, the work considers drawing's connection to other embodied rituals of practice and competition. HANDS READY is the accompanying zine to the public art project no pressure, no diamonds and is a collaborative printed project by Hazel Meyer and Ross Gay.