Touch Response

Tattoos are often times thought of as being "unprofessional" and taboo for high ranking officials even in today's society. By placing tattoos on the Dalai Lama, the ideas, beliefs, and "secret dreams" that he possesses internally are visualized and are no longer just words (Ackerman 100). The passage about tattoos says that they are "a form of self-destruction" which is important to point out because everyone's beliefs can be tested (Ackerman 100). By placing those ideas on your skin it is a way to portray how your beliefs can touch others in more than just vocalizing them. This picture that I put together encompasses both the "Tattoo" and "Taboo" sections within the reading since a religious figure being tattooed is considered taboo and unheard of. 

Many phrases and ways of describing circumstances are often times derived from sensory touches and they way humans react to them (Ackerman 70). By placing glue on my hand and scattering various cereals across it, there comes a new meaning to the phrase "sticky situation." The thought process behind the picture began by locating some of the stickiest and most sugar-coated items I had. In doing so, the glue stick gave an initial base of stickiness and the sugar covered cereals all seemed to fit in. Touch is in our everyday language and our motions, giving new meanings into how situations can be interpreted and derived from touch.