Touch

Amanda Thesiger

Our first sense is touch; it is an instinctive urge which becomes more complex
as we age. Responding to the tactile nature of the gunpowder works, this
drop-in workshop encourages participants to make careful contact with the
different surfaces they find around the site, natural and man-made. Using
, we handfuls of pressed clay to take imprints, and printing inks to add colour
can use the charged surface of these ‘in- between’ recipient surfaces to transfer
images onto simple books to take home. Each print will also be added to a
. By collating large, collaborative frieze; an artwork that will grow during the day
the prints, they become a kind of language or series of signs.