Touch (Tourism) turns access into art and moves between visible and tactual dimensions, as it transforms a hand-knit shawl pattern into an abstract touchable tapestry made from square tiles of swell paper, a Blind access tool for tactile graphics. The raised texture on each tile creates a swirling interweave patterned after the shawl. I quilted together 32 tiles with bookbinding thread to form 5 letters and to spell out the word T-O-U-C-H. The tapestry is 2 feet tall by 10 feet long. Please touch! You’ll find detailed audio description (2 minutes) and a video (3 seconds) here, too.

Depth Perception, Part 2: Touch (Tourism). R Lanzerotti, 2024.

Depth Perception exhibited at Radical Resilience at Ruth’s Table in San Francisco, March 28 - June 7, 2024 and can be visited online now via the virtual gallery.