Touch 2

Intimate Touch is an experiential art exhibition that invites audience to view ceramic objects without sight: through touch, sound, and smell.

Fifteen audience members were blindfolded and asked to observe an object for two minutes with their hands, laps, and in one instance tongue, touching and holding the object however felt comfortable. After two minutes, the audience members kept their blindfolds on and sketched with charcoal, marker, and water anything they observed.

Audience members were never shown the visual form, but were able to view the observations of other audience members.

Intimate Touch invites the audience to become intimate with sculptural objects, creating familiarity and connection without a context or judgement of visual qualities.

This exhibition asks us: What are we missing? How can we find it with our eyes closed?

Exhibited at Macalester College on November 28, 2023.

This exhibition featured 8 fired and unfired sculptural objects.