They both look as though a screen has been pulled between the viewer and the child so the image is distorted. The picture is gentle and reflects a child's questioning of its own identity because it seems to hover between presence and absence. Uimhir a ceather, a cuig. The work is a close-up representation of an old man's clasped hands. Kelley's inspiration for this work came from her own father, a bricklayer whose hands had seen years of toil.
Every wrinkle is visible, making it extremely realistic.
The image seems to sneak up on the viewer because it hovers between the foreground and the background. They portray a definite presence. Like the rest of Kelley's works, they represent Kelley's emotions of healing and hope as a way of coping with loss. The videos blur the fine line between the possibility of a child sleeping peacefully and the awful possibility of death. Both works give the viewer a feeling of vulnerability.