The Feeling Bubble: Touch Project

The Feeling Bubble

"The bubble is our skin. But the skin is also alive, breathing and excreting, shielding us from harmful rays and microbial attack, metabolizing vitamin D, insulating us from heat and cold, repairing itself when necessary, regulating blood flow, acting as a frame for our sense of touch, aiding us in sexual attraction, defining our individuality, holding all the thick red jams and jellies inside us where they belong."  -Diane Ackerman

Statement:

I tried to relay the thought of the skin keeping in vitals, such as nerves, blood, the brain, etc all while having pain, cold, heat, surrounding the body on the outside, showing the outline of the body, the skim, keeping the good in and keeping the bad out.

Dimensions: 5"x 5"
Watercolor Paper

Prismacolor and Copic markers

The Code Senders: Touch Project

The Code Senders

"Thick, onion-shaped sensors, they tell the brain what is pressing and also about the movement of joints or how the organs may be shifting their position when we move." -Diane Ackerman

Statement:

I thought it was odd that the sensors in the brain were onion like/shaped and how they could detect the smallest movement in our bodies from a moving joint to a shifting organ, and even pain.

Dimensions 5"X 4"

Watercolor Paper

Prismacolor and Copic markers