Photohaptics: Bridging the Digital and Physical
Photohaptics bridges the digital and physical divide, transforming images into places we can touch.
Developing line of inquiry: contemporary culture is flat - flat screens, flat monitors, flat phones, flat tablets, flat smartwatches.
By converting photographs - traditionally flat, visual records - into tactile, 3D-printed surfaces, this practice brings digital memories into the physical world. Light and shadow are translated into texture, allowing images to be felt as well as seen. In doing so, Photohaptics challenges the dominance of vision in digital culture, offering a multisensory, inclusive way to engage with memory, story, and space.
This approach reclaims photography as more than a moment captured - it becomes a surface of shared presence. For those often excluded from visual media, touch becomes a portal. For all of us, it offers a more embodied connection to the past and to each other.
Photohaptics unites our digital and physical lives not through simulation, but sensation - turning representation into relationship. It is both a personal and social act of placemaking, where texture becomes testimony, and memory becomes something we can hold.
Developing line of inquiry: nevermind diamonds - plastic is simultaniously forever, and also (developiong line of inquiriy) the material of contemporary childhood experience.
