The act of writing gratitudes helps us to remember and focus on the positive experiences in our lives and the things we appreciate in the world. Remembering the small daily pleasures we experience through our senses can be a practice in gratitude. This handmade book presents a number of my own and other peoples' experiences of touch that gives us pleasure in the form of gratitudes. It also is inspired by and seeks to inspire an appreciation of the physiology of touch through the array of receptors within our skin that provide us with our varied and detailed experience of touch.
The book combines drypoint print illustrations, photography and digital design. The book is handstitched and is made from, packaged in and embellished with materials that provide a sensory experience - fine art papers, varnished wood, soft rope, silk, satin and velvet.
