In 1997 Viskum acquired the first of a series of human hands removed from a corps. It lay for six months in his studio before he started using it as a paintbrush. In 1998, after long considering the ethical implications involved in using it, he used the hand to paint the first work in the series The Hand That Never Stoped Painting. The only information Viskum gives about the hand's origin is that it is from a man who lived to be more than 60 years old.
*At an exhibition in Denmark, a gallery visitor tagged the word "SYND" (Danish/Norwegian meaning "sin") on the painting titled The Hand That Never Stopped Painting XXIV. Later, during that same exhibition, the hand was stolen. It eventually turned up at a Danish police station.
