Touch Assignment
Evolution Photograph "Language is steeped in metaphors of touch. We call our emotions feelings, and we care most deeply when something "touches" us". Problems can be thorny, ticklish, sticky, or need to be handled with kid gloves." - Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, Speaking of Touch Statement: I used books I had in my library that I’ve had from childhood to most recently. It’s positioning shows how life isn’t as straightforward as one would be educated in. The work is to symbolize how language can "touch" us deeply. Fantasy is taught through multiple aspects, through "metaphors", and colorful language. War, even fictional, can be all the more eye opening to read about becoming "thorny" and "sticky". Once opened we regress back to state of childlike innocence, the mind handling it "with kid gloves". Once accepting the situation in front of us, passing on what you know helps the next. The parall