Drawing other peoples faces from touch.
Just two days before the government advised us to stop touching our faces, I set myself a goal to touch mine daily. I started drawing touch portraits, self portraits drawn in response to touch rather than sight.
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Just two days before the government advised us to stop touching our faces, I set myself a goal to touch mine daily. I started drawing touch portraits, self portraits drawn in response to touch rather than sight.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99b0814b8553586417cfa3012e0b65ffd0d2b1cf0b15ae9c1f34484ae89fdf1e/August-TP.jpg)
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![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0b9a2c93443c6914943231a7c1455ea595295f33908e5e31a5a98a7daceda92/August-TP-3-.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb6b9b13d5e8d7004974d8ff4c335c1f847d4c2dd339a72dd34ac87412eac1e8/1st-April-2020.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09523276feaf7268848274aa19ab6f57272c813060f7ac37517f737569acee1c/April-15th-2020.jpg)
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![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39dc1c1ccafaa166917eee4f193185dac16c33440be4f66f2afe002f411b75ed/May-1st-2020.jpg)
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