tactus

tactus is the Latin word meaning “sense of touch.” This ongoing series of contact prints are made using a scanner, allowing both my hands and these textile objects to press against the glass, and capture a ghost-like, inexact image.

Clothing, scrap fabric, sewing patterns, thread — these things reference how textiles touch and house our bodies on a daily basis. The gesture of touch is amplified though my handling of cloth, my hands pressed against the glass, and the beam of light that touches both as it records an image through contact.