Touch by Diane Ackerman 

Speaking of Touch 

First Touches 

The Skin has Eyes 

The Hand

It is fascinating how the concept of touch can mean so much. This article explores in the most interesting way the idea of touch and how important it is. It opened my eyes to the reality of how much touch effects our lives. Everything we do revolves around it and our understanding of the world. Touch is one of the simplest things yet it is so vital to our nurturing as babies. The concept of hands is interesting because we do everything with our hands, as artists our hands are one of the most important things, are hands express, and create the things we want. When you get a small cut on your thumb or other finger even as small as a paper cut it makes you realize and acknowledge how much you use and need your hands to work, to type, to write, to build to talk, after that cut you feel everything. You can learn a lot about a person from looking at their hands. How they work, how they use their hands musicians, artists people who work outside, the rings that people wear on their fingers everything is connected through a persons hand including the most important - touch.