Touch Assignment

 

Stitches

Crochet

10"x 4.5"

 

"Touch is the oldest sense, and the most urgent. If a saber-toothed tiger is touching a paw to your shoulder, you need to know right away. Any first-time touch, or change in touch (from gentle to stinging, say), sends the brain into a flurry of activity" 

-Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of The Senses

Statement:

The quote above emphasis how touch is important in identification. I wanted to play with both the sense

of sight and the sense of touch by creating something that visually identifies as something of nature, flowers,

But when one touches the flowers it identifies as something else, something plushy and soft. Changing the

way in which the brain now identifies the object.

Fingerprint Figure

India Ink on Mixed Media Paper 

8.5" x 6" 

"Our skin is what stands between us and the world. If you think about it, no other part of us makes contact with something not us but the skin. It imprisons us, but it also gives us an individual shape." 

-Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of The Senses

Statement:

The quote above describes how the skin is truly the one thing in contact with the world. I wanted to showcase

this idea by creating a work out of my own personal fingerprint. My fingerprint entrapping a figure, giving

it a shape, making my personal fingerprint what is in contact with the world.