Touch
What is touch? "Many suffers of MS can feel an object in their pocket (a set off keys), but they can't identify by touch. The brain won't decode the shape correctly" Diane Ackerman I have seen first-hand the struggles that MS can cause in a person’s life. The feeling of touch plays a large role in the life of someone with MS. My goal in making this piece was to show an effect of MS in a subtle way. I want to focus on the identity touch brings to an object. I took two pictures of the same hand in the same position but holding different objects that someone with MS could misidentify. The hands look like they are a proper set of hands holding objects, but really it is the same hand. This is done to show how easy it is to mistake objects when the sensation of touch is lost. The hands where cut out from the body and replaced with no background to show the feeling of detachment of touch from the whole body. Pain "Pain has played us throug