CreativeMornings - 🖐 Touch is a language unto itself

January 26, 2023

An illustration of many hands and arms interweaving, in different colors and textures, with the word TOUCH at the center

February’s Theme is Touch

Across the years when we had to stay apart to keep one another safe, skin hungered for the sensation of being pressed against another. The longing for touch was deeply felt.

Unlike sight or sound, the senses we primarily rely on for information, touch cannot be conveyed across distance through screens and speakers. Touch invites us to slow down, pay attention, and come closer.

When we open ourselves to the ineffable — what cannot be transmitted through words — touch emerges as a language unto itself. The grit of the soil under our bare feet, the clay slip enrobing a potter’s wheel, the sun-warmed fur of a beloved pet — these sensations can be healing.

How will you stay in contact with the electric matter that keeps us alive? What will pass through your hands today?

Our Lisbon chapter chose this month’s exploration of Touch and Emma Lopes illustrated the theme.

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The hashtags of the month are #CMTouch | #CreativeMornings

✍️ A Journaling Prompt ✍️

Touch something different every day of February! Keep a running log of what you touched: the crusty ridge along a sourdough loaf, the warmth of fresh sheets straight out of the dryer, the pressure of a loved ones hand sliding into yours. Notice what happens when you focus on the tactile senses.

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🧤 The Range of Textures at Our Fingertips

Emma Lopes made the beautiful image you see at the top of this email! Born and raised in Scotland and the UK, Emma now lives in Portugal where she makes both large scale paintings and illustrations for organizations with purpose for people and planet. Her mission is to support social and environmental justice movements through her work and make the world a little more beautiful and a little more biophilic! Explore more of Emma’s work.

Laura Huber's papercut of a mother's hand reaching out and her baby clutching her finger

Reeling from the isolation of the pandemic lockdown, Laura Huber picked up the art of papercuts and made drawings of two hands touching. Discover more reader interpretations of the theme of Touch.

AI-generated image of Nick Cave clutching a boombox with six fingers on his hand

Come for DJ Jim Q’s thumping tunes of Touch, stay for his thoughtful reflections on the human touch that is missing from today’s AI image and text generators (and peek some pretty funny AI-generated pictures and song lyrics, like Nick Cave’s hand in the image above 😜).

Stop motion animation of two paper mache hands wriggling their fingers

I made this newsletter by closing my eyes and paying closer attention to the sensations brushing up against my skin. What will you reach for this month?

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Annie Yi, CreativeMornings HQ

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