Touch Me (2005-2009) by Zane Berzina

		"I am fascinated by the dermis as a material, sensor, contact organ and medium for non-verbal communications. While our lives are increasingly surrounded with artificial intelligence and digital networks I am interested in the directness of the skin - skin as an analogue system. [...] The Touch Me installation invites visitors to create visual responses through touch and metamorphoses from one state into another." From my essay 'Re-thinking Touch' at ' Sk-interfaces ' edited by Jens Hauser. (2008) I particularly like this idea as it is a concept that I would like to include in my project.  I would like to use images or patterns in my sculpture that will react to heat or cold.  This will further allow individuals to interact with my piece.  I would my images to be linked to the workings of the spine, i.e. the images of the nerve endings being linked to images of what they allow to function.