Touch Response

Child's Perspective

Dimensions

 11x14 inches

Medium

paper and vine charcoal

Inspiration

"Each of us has an exaggerated mental picture of our body, with a big head, hands, mouth, genitals, and a small trunk; children often draw people with big heads and hands, because that is the way their body feels to them" (Ackerman, A Natural History of The Senses, 95).

  Artist Statement

    Child's Perspective captures the way a child views themself. Children often view themselves with a big head and hands because in their minds, those are the things on their bodies they are most conscience of. The mirror image is screaming because it depicts confusion and fear as the child sees themself in a way they don't view everyone else. 

Torture of Adoration 

Dimensions

9x11 inches

Medium

Canon Camera and Photoshop

Inspiration

"Change the room from a cubicle in a beauty emporium to a prison cell. Keep the level of pain exactly the same, and it easily qualifies as torture" (Ackerman, A Natural History of The Senses, 103).

Artist Statement

Torture of Adoration takes a look at the length people go for beauty nowadays. Staged differently, common beauty items look like something straight from a torture scene in a horror film. But after all, beauty is pain.