Touch Exercise

                                                                       

   Kissing 

                 "One style of sex can be bare bones, fundamental  and unromantic, but a kiss  is the height of voluptuousness, and expense of time and an expanse of spirit in the sweet toil of romance, when one's bones quiver, anticipation rockets, but gratification is kept at bay on purpose, in exquisite torment,to build to a succulent crescendo of emotion and passion." -Diane Ackerman

               I took this image as a representation of kissing because in it I find the succulence and build up that Ackerman describes in her work. The kiss is sensual and often unprovoked, a type of  impulsive display of intense feeling that creates a whole flood of emotion. I said "kiss me" to my long term boyfriend and snapped this image to show the sort of intense passion in evoked- you can see how his lips are pressed against my shoulder and how the corners of his mouth are positioned in a grin, how his eyes closed. The kiss is full of it's own erotic and blissful feeling while also alluding to what more there is to come. 

The Point of Pain

"There is a deep emotional component to pain."- Diane Ackerman 

                This is photo represents pain's unusual subjectivity. Normally a bite would elicit a shooting, unpleasant pain, but a bite from a lover can go unnoticed or become so wrapped in pleasure that it is not minded. Scientists can't figure out why we feel pain any more then they can figure out why we feel love, nor can they decipher what exactly elicits it. Pain is as emotional as it is sensory, something I think this picture shows. The bite would hurt if it wasn't done in passion and with love. The point of this pain is pleasure.