The fingerprints are used to represents relationships to each other and all life on earth.
“Time, opinion and fingerprints are often what can separate us, however paradoxically it is what unites us all when it really matters,” says Elaine.
“I started walking across cities from deprived social areas into a more economically enhanced area. I ask people how they feel about giving their fingerprint: documenting the changing landscape, exploring evolution, identity, feelings, touch and connection.
“Transcending difference and sitting equally is what drives my passion.”
People adding their prints in London in August 2020. Photo: Elaine Robinson
Once finished, the piece – which will consist of 20 panels of fingerprints and small satellite circles of prints to make a giant fingerprint – will hang in resin and be shown in a national exhibition. Quotes will also accompany the piece.