Connecting Through Touch

March 24, 2020 at 5:06 pm | Posted in Art Studio, Considering Ideas | 2 Comments
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© 2020, Joan Desmond, Forbidden Touch

“Forbidden Touch” is from a recent, mixed media, collage series about the human touch. We respond to human physical touch emotionally, psychologically. Infants blossom under gentle, comforting touch or may be stunted without it. Touch can sooth, invite, inspire, and rouse. Touch can also hurt, deaden and repulse. Currently we are experiencing a time where human touch is being restrained and censured. Many people are wearing masks and gloves, creating barriers to touch. In the series I use the most fundamental vehicle for touch, the human hand.

 

Bloom

February 16, 2020 at 5:24 pm | Posted in Art Studio | 2 Comments
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                                                          © Joan Desmond, Bloom


Here is a collage created by cutting up one of my early serigraphs. I didn’t start out thinking “botanical”. It just came together like that as I started placing the pieces.

One Of My Favorite Colors Is

October 16, 2019 at 3:02 pm | Posted in Art Studio | Leave a comment
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© Joan Desmond, Beguiled by Magenta

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