{"product_id":"cool-calm-collected-copy","title":"Studies in Sensation","description":"\u003csection class=\"text-base mt-4 text-neutral-500\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"text-base mt-4 text-neutral-500\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003eOriginal — Acrylic on Canvas 20m (W) x 20cm (H) x 3.5cm (D)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eAcrylic on stretched canvas, ready to hang. Signed on the back. Varnished for protection. Certificate of Authenticity included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003eThis series marks the beginning of a broader inquiry into felt experience.  An exploration of how visual language can evoke physical sensation.  Through a meditative painting process, I work with motifs of hair, feathers, and fur to investigate the tactile memory embedded in these familiar, bodily materials. Each 30 x 30cm painting is a sensory fragment, an intimate meditation on texture, memory, and the threshold between modification and manipulation, protection and projection, the seen and the sensed. I explore contrast in colour, light, and form to examine how visual triggers might simulate the sensation of touch or emotion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003eThroughout this process, questions emerged: What makes us \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003efeel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003e something when we see it? How does colour communicate across the senses? Does contrast sharpen our awareness, or soften it? What happens to sensation when colour is removed or altered? If we were colourblind, would we still feel the same response?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003eStudies in Sensation offers a quiet space to consider these questions, where image and feeling meet and where our inner sensory landscapes are stirred by surface alone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003eIndividual works already sold - #1 Grey and #6 Peacock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReady to Hang.\u003c\/strong\u003e This artwork is stretched and ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Rachel South Art","offers":[{"title":"20cm (W) x 20cm (H) x 3.5cm (D)","offer_id":42889124446304,"sku":null,"price":180.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0581\/2577\/9040\/files\/PXL_20250729_001510491_2_3306ee29-65a8-45e3-bee9-46e2cd5b6542.jpg?v=1781852726","url":"https:\/\/rachelsouthart.com\/products\/cool-calm-collected-copy","provider":"Rachel South Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}