Touch Response

 

Touch Response

Beauty = Painful Aesthetics 

Newspaper, magazine, cardstock

12x12 inches

“We spend our lives trying to about it, and from one point of view, what we call “happiness” may be just the absence of pain.” 
    -A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman, page 104

Statement:

    This immediately reminded me of the fashion/beauty world, as so many people will go to great lengths to essentially be a “fake” person. Major corporations have a firm hold on what the vast majority of the population believe to be trendy/cool. However, when you don’t put so much pressure into being “perfect” you will truly be happy (the point of the cartoon characters).

Darkness

Edited Photography with Digital Art 

1600 x 1600 pixels

“…but to be without touch is to move through a blurred, deadened world, in which you could lose a leg and not know it, burn your hand without feeling, and lose track of where you stop and the featureless day begins” (82).

    -A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman, page 82

Statement:
A world without touch is one that would be dark, dull, and ever so lonely. Having no true sense of anything that is happening is a life in which no one should ever have to live in. A featureless existence would result in ultimate dismal, everything would be drained of color and essentially lifeless. Numbness is just a meaningless void of existence. Inevitable, darkness is humankind's largest fear.