
: Drawing Friday , 17 January 2025 Somatic awareness : Texture and emotion Visualisations of the surgical removal of uterine polyps : c Nora Kennally : 2025 I have been sent images made by a friend of mine , who has visualised how a recent surgical experience felt . At the centre of the communicative effect of these beautiful and at the same time difficult images is texture . Their visceral nature is reinforced by an awareness of the paper being folded , creased , stained and re-flattened Rorschach tests for inner . pain In 2016 Stephens and Hoffman published a paper in which they looked at why people might react to different visual textures in different ways . Fur feels soft , tree bark feels rough and silk feels smooth and when we look at these surfaces we conjoin our tactile knowingness