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Language of Touch

This series is like a subjective alphabet of touch.

Each individual develops a touch sense perception by means of an interactive subjective experience. Like topographic map lines, fingerprints denote escalating levels of sensitivity to the elements.

Language of Touch -2 by Kassandra Bossell 1999 wax, wood, carbon 45 x 45cm
Language of Touch -2,  1999,  wax, wood, carbon,  45 x 45cm

Passages within the body fold, enfold and unfold, including and excluding, tracing blood and nerve passages. Volumes of liquid secrete through the body causing rhythms that sensitize and magnetize our senses.

Language of Touch 4 by Kassandra Bossell 1999 wax, wood, carbon 45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 4,  1999,  wax, wood, carbon,  45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 6 by Kassandra Bossell 1999 wax, wood, carbon 45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 6,  1999,  wax, wood, carbon,  45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 5 by Kassandra Bossell 1999 wax, wood, carbon 45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 5,  1999,  wax, wood, carbon,  45 x 45cm

Our outer skin makes possible the greatest risk of all – to touch another.

Others we touch in a myriad of ways, ranging from a dull mundane business swipe, to the electric fire of sexual flirtation, to the type of intimate exchange one has with a soul mate.

Language of Touch -7 by Kassandra Bossell 1999 wax, wood, carbon 45 x 45cm
Language of Touch -7,  1999,  wax, wood, carbon,  45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 1 by Kassandra Bossell 1999 wax, wood, carbon 45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 1,  1999,  wax, wood, carbon,  45 x 45cm

Skin performs the threshold of the flesh, the encasement, the body that houses the being which goes way further.

It marks a limit of embodiment, locking out all that is not me and simultaneously providing a handle /compass / antenna for sensing the outside world.

Language of Touch 8 by Kassandra Bossell 1999 wax, wood, carbon 45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 8,  1999,  wax, wood, carbon,  45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 3 by Kassandra Bossell 1999 wax, wood, carbon 45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 3,  1999,  wax, wood, carbon,  45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 4 by Kassandra Bossell 1999 wax, wood, carbon 45 x 45cm
Language of Touch 4,  1999,  wax, wood, carbon,  45 x 45cm
The Rabbit, Customs House, Sydney Chinese New Year by Kassandra Bossell 2016 Steel, fabrics, lighting installation view

Commissions
Coccolithophore and Diatom by Kassandra Bossell 2018 mixed media installation view

Installation
Crossroads by Kassandra Bossell 2016 bamboo, fabric detail

Public Art
I am Pollen 1.K.Bossell.2016.Forton, 80 x 40 x 60cm

Sculpture