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Hand Full of Guts Pumpkin guts and hand "A plunge into an icy farm pond on a summer day when the air temperature and body temperature are the same. The feel of a sweat bee delicately licking moist beads from your ankle. Reaching blindfolded into a bowl of Jell-O as part of a club initiation. Pulling a foot out of the mud. the squish of wet sand between the toes." (Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, Pg. 80-81) When thinking about this piece I had read this section and knew I wanted to do something with it, but I did not know what. Later, I was carving a pumpkin and it made me think about the feeling of pumpkin guts. The sensation of wet and cold that you get when you are digging through your pumpkin to clean it out. I like to think of my fingers as ridges on the outside of a pumpkin. Printed Painting Acrylic paint on 11x14 canvas and hand "The tiny ridges in our fingertips, whose roughness makes it easier for us to grasp objects, are randomly formed...
