Hamilton asserts that we know things primarily through our skin, the largest organ on our body which both covers and reveals.
The philosopher Simone Weil defined prayer as “absolutely unmixed attention.”
The artist Ann Hamilton embodies this notion in her sweeping works of art that bring all the senses together.
She uses her hands to create installations that are both visually astounding and surprisingly intimate, and meet a longing many of us share, as she puts it, to be alone together.
https://onbeing.org/programs/ann-hamilton-making-and-the-spaces-we-share/
Embodied Knowledge.
Spatial Agency : Organism/Person/Environment
The body and space are reflexive and interdependent.
Movement and tactility in photography/representations
Merleau-Ponty on the intertwining of vision and movement, and that tactility in photography depends on the skin rather than the eye.
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