CHOO AI XIN
 

Textures, however, are of great interest to me not merely from the visual aspect,

but from the tactile sensations one gets from touching them.

I pay a lot of attention to the tactile quality of textures, in addition to the visual aspect of it,

I believe this is primarily due to her heightened awareness of touch.

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The sense of touch is one of the five human senses most often overlooked,

and yet is plays an important role in what makes us human.

This realization does, in fact, have scientific basis.

An 2015 article posted on Huffington Post reported findings published in book entitled

“Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart and Mind” by neurobiologist Dr. David Linden,

in which the researcher puts forth a proposition, stating

“genes, cells and neural circuits involved in the sense of touch have been crucial to creating our unique human experience”.

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The article goes on to state how our sense of touch is affected by social and environmental context,

and how this important human sense plays a crucial role in child development

as well as having important therapeutic properties beneficial to us later in life.

And yet, touch is often one of the last of the five senses that come to mind in terms of importance.

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I have chosen fabric as the medium through which texture is explored.

Fabric is ubiquitous and has an added unique characteristic in that it come in contact with the human skin on a daily basis.

And yet, more often than not ,fabric – particularly those we wear- gets taken for granted,

in as far as its texture and how it feels on our body.

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My fabric installations invite the audience to physically interact with the art.

In this case, is not there merely to be seen, but to be felt, and physically experienced.

And through this interaction, an opportunity for the audience to rediscover a sense that has perhaps been overlooked by them,

as part of larger contemplation of how we regard our surroundings, as well as the people in the spaces around us.