Texture Quilt Plastic, cotton fabric, paper, gauze, grip tape, cardboard, human hair, foil wrappers, facemask, wax coated paper, and thread 11"x 9" "After all, our palette of feelings through touch is more elaborate than just hot, cold, pain, and pressure. Many touch receptors combine to produce what we call a twinge. Consider all the varieties of pain, irritation, abrasion; all the textures of lick, pat, wipe, fondle, knead; all the prickling, bruising, tingling, brushing, scratching, banging, fumbling, kissing, nudging." Natural History of the Senses , Ackerman, page 80 This piece was mostly inspired by the complexity that surrounds the sense of touch. While temperature and pressure levels influence our reception of certain objects that we interact with, there are much more subtle details we pick up on, as Ackerman explains. I wanted to create a piece which puts the level of sensitivity that the sense of touch possesses on display. The piece features se...
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