Touch Response

 Touch Response

Title: "FireLight" By Sarah Winfree

Dimensions: Digital

Medium: Camera 

"A hand moves with a complex precision that's irreplaceable... Because we use out hands so often for so many purposes, flexing, bending, gripping..."(Ackerman 117)

This photograph I took relates to the "touch" section of Ackerman's book, because of the proximity of the hand to the fire. In this picture you can see the hand gripping a cigarette. Another reason I chose to use this picture for this assignment is because when I think of touch, the first word that comes to mind is heat, and how like a flame, a touch is warm. In the book A Natural Journey of the Senses, Ackerman also discusses the intimacy of touch, which is often compared to a flame rising up inside someone. 

Title: "A Snake in The Hand"

Dimensions: Digital

Medium: Camera 

"Touch is a powerfully important sense among animals, for whom the slightest touch of an object or another animal triggers responses" (Ackerman 98)

In A Natural Journey of the Senses, Ackerman writes about how the slightest touch can trigger a response from an animal. Snakes have sensitive skin and the slightest brush against one will lead to its scales contracting and shifting as a response.