\u201cMapping Four Decades of Touch\u201d is a heat map that plots one hundred discrete memories of touch. The years span 1985-2021, ages 4 to 40. The coordinates that glow \u201chottest\u201d (white) are the areas where more of my life events have congregated. Un-remembered moments blur around the edges and are often faintest, though not necessarily from lack of significance. The memories are contextualized through a (loosely) structured set of parameters.<\/p>\n
The map both reveals and obscures intimacy. The moments in each point require some investment of time and searching on the part of a user; clicking into pop up boxes, zooming in and out, panning across the map, repeating. The user may get \u201clost\u201d in the constellations of points of touch. Possibly, the narrator\u2019s relationship to place may emerge.<\/p>\n
This project takes particular inspiration from Amber Jamilla Musser\u2019s discussion of surface <\/em>and opacity <\/em>in \u201cSensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance<\/em>\u201d (2018). I was inspired by this text to think about what a controlled, quantified exposure of (sometimes) explicit content from my work as a memoir-writer could achieve, especially in relationship to the ongoing theft of intimate data that is the status quo for digital life.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cMapping Four Decades of Touch\u201d is a heat map that plots one hundred discrete memories of touch. The years span 1985-2021, ages 4 to 40. The coordinates that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5243,"featured_media":11063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1402],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1435],"class_list":["post-10828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1402"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11064,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions\/11064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}