Touch Project
Gentle Touch 6000 x 4000 pixels Photograph "Any first-time touch, or change in touch (from gentle to stinging, say), sends the brain into a flurry of activity. Any continuous low-level touch becomes background." -Diane Ackerman, A Natural H istory of the Senses This work shows the way a touch can meld into the background of one's senses, the sense almost being turned off in a specific spot to the point it is not noticed. The hand does not notice the bug resting upon it, the creature is too small and still to attract continued attention to the skin it rests on, so its minuscule weight is tuned out as non-essential noise. Weight 6000 x 4000 Pixels Photograph "Although there’s no special name for the ability, we can touch something and decide if it’s heavy, light, gaseous, soft, hard, liquid, solid" -Diane Ackerman, A Natural H istory of the Senses This photograph gives the immediate sensation of weight. Our sense of touch is so keen and...