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 What is Touch?

“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. When we touch something on purpose…..we set in motion our complex web of touch receptors, making them fire by exposing them to a sensation, changing it, exposing them to another.” - pg. 80, from A Natural History of the Senses 

Statement: Once I read this excerpt I realized how often I find myself in the situation of unpredicted touch. The subject in the photographs above is wearing noise cancelling headphones removing the sense of hearing. Most individuals only become aware of what is touching them and what they're touching if they can see and feel it. When I wear these headphones my friends will run up to me and touch my shoulder sending my brain into full panic just due to the unexpected touch.



The Feeling Bubble

“But the skin is also alive, breathing and excreting, shielding us from harmful rays and microbial attack, metabolizing vitamin D, insulating us from heat and cold, repairing itself when necessary, regulating blood flow, acting as a frame for our sense of touch, aiding us in sexual attraction, defining our individuality, holding all the thick red jams and jellies inside us where they belong.” - pg. 67, from A Natural History of the Senses

Statement: With this being in the opening paragraph for this chapter, it left quite the impression on me and I considered what it would be like to have actual jelly insides. This idea went through several phases: the jelly being photoshopped onto the body as if it were the insides of the subject, to taking a picture of jelly on the photo, then resulting in this unnerving visual ASMR video. Not many people are comfortable with showing a lot of skin, including myself, so I had the subject remove an article of clothing to push the idea of skin being so important. Placing the jelly on the photo represents the jelly insides being on the outside thus the skin not doing its job without security. 






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