【Mike Horner Archives】

Sometimes the internet grants us all something so mind boggling that we need to stop,Mike Horner Archives breathe, examine, and appreciate the limitless wonders of humanity.

Or, more specifically, the wonders—and terrors—of human hands.

Let me introduce you to the Instagram account where both joy and terror co-exist peacefully: subwayhands. It's a little corner of the internet that is exactly what it advertises itself to be. It's a grid full of the contorted, folded, gripping claws of human hands on the New York City Subway (though there are a few exceptions).

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Some hands are wrinkly (imagine the stories those hands tell!) and some are decorated with extremely long fingernails or rings.

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Some look angry or lonely, others look kind.

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Some are holding other hands, subway poles, legs, bottles of water—or just themselves.

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Seeing the appendages out of context is a little jarring. Hands are an unsettling piece of the body when cropped away from those darn arms.

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But thesehands... the way they are displayed on the @subwayhands account make them downright irresistible. You can't help but keep scrolling through. Each image feels so intimate and sinister simultaneously.

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Somehow it's mesmerizing and horrifying all at the same time. But, it'll also make you a heck of a lot more self conscious next time you grab a subway pole.

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