"Origins", Touch Assignment

“But, above all, touch teaches us that life has depth and contour; it makes our sense of the world and ourself three-dimensional. Without that intricate feel for life there would be no artists, whose cunning is to make sensory and emotional maps, and no surgeons, who dive through the body with their fingers.”

"Origins" 11"x17"(Acrylic Paint, Glass Pane, Fur), was made by painting and scratching a nude figure onto a glass pane and then smashing said pane and combining with fur. The emphasis of this work is texture. The three materials are used to express different parts of our lives: Broken glass to symbolize pain, fur to symbolize comfort, and raised paint to symbolize the marks we leave on ourselves and others as we experience both. The glass symbolizes our natural transparency, how two-dimensional we may seem in comparison to the rest of the world. The figure is faceless to remove identity, as we all come from a woman, then evolve into our true identity the moment we touch the real world.

In progress photo