"Speaking of Touch"

   
     "Hands are messengers of emotion." (Ackerman P.118) Touch is perhaps the most important of the five senses. Touch gives us the ability to interact with the world and others. Touch comforts, hurts, surprises, tickles, and so many other things. Whereas the other senses all deal with one specific organ, touch is everywhere, you can touch with your entire body. Touch, it is essential to our lives, whereas hearing or seeing are not. Touching things gives us knowledge about them, smooth, rough, hard, soft, hairy, bumpy, etc. Without touch we would be lost, we wouldn't be able to interact with our surroundings, we wouldn't exist as we do. Touch is very important is artwork, without touch, art would be essentially impossible. Touch is our connection to the world and each other.