For those who believe emotional proximity is the first meaningful occurrency.
French Connections was made to be read like a letter—slowly, personally, and with someone in mind. The stories stay close, even after the last line.
For Blushers (Founding Members), as part of the Love Lexis Series.
Touch is the most direct form of presence, yet its effects often extend beyond the moment of contact, as explored in Under the Skin. Now, let’s delve into how touch, transcending its physical form, enables two people to express love through creation.
Touch through creation reimagines the act of making as a conduit for presence. It embeds intention, care, and emotion into the tangible form, turning creation into an active extension of the body. This act of reaching, grasping, and sensing allows touch to persist beyond time, space, and direct physicality.
In this way, touch leaves a lasting imprint on people—a tactile legacy others can engage with and feel.
The Many Dimensions of Loving Presence
Presence moves across a spectrum—it lingers in immediacy, stretches into distance, and settles in what is remembered. More than proximity, presence is the imprint bequeathed forward, the way something carries traces of touch long after hands have parted.
Through creation, touch transforms, becoming something to return to. Whether shaped, shared, or passed forward, each act of making carries presence, as something tangible, waiting to be felt.
In this exploration, we’ll move through three dimensions of presence, where touch outlives the loving act of creation.