Saturday, October 29, 2005

Furry handles


I made these texure handles in response to references to how Autistic children relate to textures. Some may find touching certain surfaces extremely painful, such as fur. I thought about experimenting a little about what feelings or memories we conjure up when touching something especially if we can't see it.

My project map at present look like an octopus (triapus really said Fabianne as it has only three legs)One leg has a sucksion cup called Memory and it won't let go. The other is called the Sensory World which has several all related to the senses and the third is Space. Some of the ideas relating to these tentacles are a Sensory Maze from which the way out is through touch or sound only...This might go somewhere. But that all ideas seem good at first look don't they?
There is the inflatable, backpack cocoon for those "hide away" moments....hmm it's not all that conceptual really. Although it would probably help severely autistic kids plus commercially it would probably make sense as well. There is a whole lot to think about in this area.