Describe your current relationship to the world through your sense of touch? Observing how you use your hands, how are they connected to your processes of thinking and imagining?
Often times we neglect our sense of touch, since we often identify objects with our eyes. Therefore, before we touch, we already have identified the feeling of an object. We perhaps have already given the object an adjective, an opinion and most importantly categorized them; just by looking at them. However, if we reversed the order in witch we identify, for example using touch before sight. We would be able to think of things through a different perspective, and allowing us time before we jump into conclusions. My relationship with the world through touch is not limited but instead underrated. I often don’t prioritize touch before sight. But after the exercise of drawing and touching an unidentified object inside a bag without seeing it, I realized how my direction of thoughts differ compared to observing an object. For example, I was drawing a toy giraffe bluntly with my eyes closed. Instead of noticing the odds of my roommate deciding to bring a toy giraffe from her country, I learned to appreciate the texture, the detailed lines and shapes the toy has through my senses of touch. Little did I know that my perspective of the world is biased by prioritizing a sense in-front of another. And that there are so much more ways to learn about the world.
15 adjectives on touch
- Warm
- Soft
- Flexible
- Original
- Homy
- Unique
- Strong
- Surreal
- Transformable
- Sensitive
- Dimensional
- Gentle
- Safe
- Lovely
- Structural
