Rae Lanzerotti, Depth Perception Part 1: Touch (Tourism), 2024

Rae Lanzerotti

Depth Perception Part 1: Touch (Tourism), 2024

Capsule "swell" paper, bookbinding thread, polypropylene backing, tactile adhesives, Merino wool shawl, binder clips, metal tape, braille tape

24" x 120" x 1/16"

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Visual Description

Touch (Tourism) by Rae Lanzerotti is a touchable tapestry made from square, paper tiles stitched together into blocky letters that spell the word “touch.” The tiles are made from swell-paper, tactile prints and are loosely quilted with yellow, red, and white bookbinding thread. They create five, large black-and-white, capital letters: T-O-U-C-H. Braille labels the upper left corner of each letter, beneath metallic tape. A soft, beige wool, triangular shawl (knit by Rae) hangs above the letter O. It points to stretched areas in the center of the O, marking out a knitting pattern. The abstract and swirling lines on the textured-paper tiles may be recognizable as distorted scans of the shawl’s patterns, which seem to form varied organic and anatomical shapes. Each tile is 8 x 8 inches square, each letter is two feet tall, and altogether the word “touch” is ten feet long. The letters of Touch attach, via ¼” stitches, onto a lacy, black, polyethylene backing with the bottom edge wall-mounted three feet from the floor.

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