The Cleanest Touch
2024 - ongoing
2024 - ongoing
The Cleanest Touch is between our skin and Earth’s skin. Together they create a texture imprint through rest and gravity - a collaborative graphic art by us and the ground beneath us. The photos are the visible trace of an immersive, contemplative process of deep resting in Nature.
I started this project partly as a practice of self-healing from a chronic condition that I've been dealing with for the past four years, and partly as a pure exploration of my perception of the threshold between my body and the surrounding landscape. Soon after, I extended it into a guided immersive process, inviting participants, through verbal poetic cues and questions, to gradually come home to ground, let go of anything that keeps them aways from the earth, and bond with gravity as the love force between us and our planet.
If this project were an iceberg, the photographs would be the tip of it. Beneath lies an entire embodied process involving our skin, the ground, and gravity.
The terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within the terrain. (David Abram)
