How does our minds know just by sight, what you would like by touch or not. What is stimulated in us that triggers the need to reach out, the need to feel?
These were some questions I asked myself right after walking by a red sticker on a light pole that caught my eye. I took a picture of it, just because I liked the simplicity of the ‘’no love’’ sticker but haven’t given too much attention to the texture next to it until I looked back at my phone. It wasn’t a texture that I haven’t felt before: cold metal that was scraped and scratched over time, the feeling of steel, maybe with a little rust. I could think of the feeling it would me if I would have touched it, but somehow, on my screen, it looked like something I haven’t felt before. I never went back to where it was, I guess my mind was not as interested as I thought it was. But I did ask myself, what would happen if we created new textures in a digital form? Would we recognise them because we could associate them with something we have felt before? Or would we be intrigued into knowing what they feel like? Is the sensation of touch as imposing in our minds as we think it is? To what extent can it go?
