Touching Contradictions

One touch can change a life forever and ever!

This multi-media visual journal entry is about the contradiction of our sense of touch.

Sometimes it is the most splendid thing in the world to experience, other times it is a punch to the heart.

Sometimes we wish the touch never ends, like the touch of a grandchild’s hand or the touch of a musician hand on violin strings or the touch of your dying father’s hand. Other times we wish we had never done the touch at all like touching the hot stove or a sharp knife or sticking your hand into a dark hole.

This entry started with no intentions, just in the moment mindfulness, watercolour and acrylic paint, pages from a novel, tissue paper with musical notes, gesso and gel medium applied with a trowel, scribbles with crayons, china markers, and pencil crayons.

I originally was going to draw people with the the arms like Carla Sonheim, but decided the people could be imagined based on the position of the arms and hands.  I added some “hand quotes” and then feelings and events and symbols that represent events in my life, others in my life and history, but now is not the time to tell the full stories.

I bet you could tell many “touching”’stories yourself!