A Natural History of the Senses - Touch 
Touch: Kissing

"Our lips are deliciously soft and responsive. Their touch sensations are represented by a large part of the brain, and what a boon that is to kissing." -Diane Ackerman

After reading the excerpt on Kissing from A Natural History of the Senses, I thought about just how sensitive the lips are. I began to compare sensitive things in life and thought of oranges and tangerines; their individual cells holding the juice are easily breakable and so sensitive just like human lips. I wanted to show the contrast between lips and oranges by capturing both and setting them together in one piece in order to encourage the audience to see the similarities directly. 

Touch: Pain

"In the sand-swept sprawl of the panoramic film Lawrence of Arabia, a scene of quintessential machismo stands out: T. E. Lawrence holding his hand over a candle flame until the flesh starts to sizzle. When his companion tries the same thing, he recoils in pain, crying, "Doesn't that hurt you?" as he nurses his burned hand. "Yes," Lawrence replies coolly. "Then what is the trick?" the companion asks. "The trick," Lawrence answers, "is not to mind." -Diane Ackerman

Due to Ackerman's use of imagery when recalling the film's scene, I decided to remake what the companion possibly felt when buring his hand. Instead of literal skin sizzling off, I faintly created the word "cares" from images of skin to represent T. E. Lawrence's, and essentially anyone's, cares metaphorically burning off of ourselves as long as we simply do not mind to let them burn off. 




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