Similar to what Instruction #9, “To realize your unrealized hands,” visualizes in this stream of thoughts, Tenderhands is full of poetic instructions that question and counter-question the readers and their own bodies in search of rebonding between a body and a mind of one person. This personal, private reattachment has taken place in the most domestic places-home-, either alone or with the most intimate groups of people during the past lockdowns. Nevertheless, the revealed intimacy has spoken to us that we have precarious bodies; our bodies can be infectious to others and vice versa; physical isolation reciprocates with mental and emotional isolation and vice versa; that body and mind cannot be separated from one another.

Within Tenderhands, the artist observes social and societal changes that have responded differently at each COVID wave biopolitical inquiries. Not only in/decreasing anxiety lurking in the idea of publicity, but also ever-lastingly changing COVID measurements (re)channel various perspectives about hands, bodies and bodily interactions. Likewise, Instructions of Tenderhands have evolved on their own as fluidly as national and local responses to the virus and the public sentiment have changed. Kang attempts to confront those questions regarding the re-realization of one’s body and the delicate, precarious act of channelling between private body and public body with this ongoing writing practice of Tenderhands.