Emily Dickinson

On Touch

Ideas that can find expression in art can come at any time and in any shape. While out delivering leaflets in my community earlier in the week, wearing protective gloves, I got on a train of thought about how contact and touch is so central to our humanity, even if it is sometimes ambivalent, risky or even dangerous - as it is in the current climate.

It lead me to Emily Dickinson's poem "He touched me, and I lived to know". It seemed a sad but important thought right now. I shall work on this idea further…

He Touched Me - Emily Dickinson - MRC