This sculpture is an individual and unique artwork. This pose has also been re-performed and cast as a contributing part of a full set of 16, which has been designated by the artist to be a separate and unique artwork.

The collection of cast hands depicts different animal species whose extinctions were caused by humans. The artist has cast his own hands in poses that playfully recreate an approximation of the animal in shadow. They are a memorial but also remnants of a detached and futile resurrection.

The Pyrenean Ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica), Spanish common name Bucardo, was one of the four subspecies of the Spanish Ibex or Iberian Wild Goat, a species endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. Pyrenean Ibex were most common in the Cantabrian Mountains, Southern France, and the Northern Pyrenees. This species was common during the Holocene and Upper Pleistocene, during which their morphology, primarily some skulls, of the Pyrenean Ibex was found to be larger than other Capra subspecies in southwestern Europe from the same time. In January 2000, the Pyrenean Ibex became extinct.
In the Middle Ages, Pyrenean ibex were very abundant in the Pyrenees region, but decreased rapidly in the 19th and 20th centuries due to hunting pressure. The last natural Pyrenean Ibex, a female named Celia, was found dead on January 6, 2000. Although her cause of death is known (she was killed by a fallen tree), the reason for the extinction of the subspecies as a whole is a mystery. Some hypotheses include the inability to compete with other species for food, infections and diseases, and poaching. The Pyrenean ibex became the first taxon ever to become "unextinct" on July 30, 2003 when a cloned female ibex was born alive and survived for several minutes, before dying from lung defects.