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The tactility of the stitching along with the association of the objects usually seen with embroidery, creates a sense of touch or wanting to touch the work itself. But as this is in an exhibit, you cannot touch it. This idea of wanting to touch, wanting to feel, having that desire to move your hand along an object, but be denied of this desire of touch is seen within the work of Andrea Bolland. She writes, "rather than undertaking a radically new reading, this essay will focus on these paradoxical relationships-specifically, the intertwined themes of sensuality and antisensuality and of desire and artifice-that by common consensus seem to lie at the heart of the statue group."(Bolland, page 1) This idea of senuality and antisenuality is directly shown within this idea of pulling the viewer into touch yet almost rejecting their touch.

The text itself fits into the idea of touch within our study. The text says, "If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of his piece he compromises the results and repeats past results." This idea links within the object itself. This piece is created with the use of sewing. In this process, the potential of pricking yourself is high. With this in mind, the concern of pricking may change the course of your work even without realizing it, making something that may not be fully new due to this concern of touch. It could also be the actual pricking of your finger. The pain caused by the prick could make someone increasingly concerned and cause them to either quit or proceed at a different pace or strategy ultimately changing the piece itself.

the use of hands within this piece is a central theme. This piece itself is made by the use of sewing which mainly relays on your hands. In addition, this piece draws on the views mind causing them to be drawn in to touch the work as if it were an embroidered pillow on the coach or a bed. But it is not and that sense is denied. This piece draws on the idea that hands are the central organs of touch and they are drawn to things that they want or desire. Sharron Assof writes, "Their verbal and visual depictions draw attention to the power of the hand as the organ of touch that can be used in the pursuit of vice or virtue."(Assof, page 3)

This piece was seen in an exhibit within the Walsh building during the class of touch. Sadly I do not remember the name of the exhibit or the artist that created this exhibit.