This interactive exhibition reflects on how individuals lose touch with intimacy, value, and personal memory in a consumer-driven culture. The exhibition is designed as a communal space where people can contemplate value and sense memory. The value we imbue onto objects, products, and gifts, and how that value relates to our decisions, relationships, memories, and senses is explored through signs of touch that bear significance.

This work is largely an exploration of my relationship with what I buy. I am drawn to the object as a common ground for personal and social connection and reflection. This project involves spending extra time with products, noticing and dissecting each item, and actively connecting to the senses. Due to our dependence on consumerism, we need to make room for purposeful agency within our relationships with ourselves, one another, technology, and the material world. 

“Keep In Touch” proposes that the material world can also be rich with meaning and humanity. It asks that you consider the traces of touch and the value of objects beyond their monetary value, and invites you to practice engaging with inanimate objects in meaningful to better understand what it means to be human.