Touch: Taboos & Tattoos
Taboos Touch taboos were described as socially unacceptable places to touch a person on their body. Different cultures have different ideas of what is acceptable to touch, some allow hair to be touched, some consider touching hair to be on the same plane as molestation. However, there are other ways in which touching is considered taboo. As I was mulling over the text, trying to decide what to create, I was eating chips and dip. I reached for the napkin to clean off my dirty hands, when an idea struck me. It's taboo to touch things with dirty hands, because you shouldn't leave a mess everywhere. But human hands are covered in germs, oils, and accumulated nasty things that we don't see normally, yet it is not unacceptable to say, shake someone's hand without first having them wipe it off. So for this image, I finished eating my chips, no longer concerned for what little bits of dip and seasoning were getting on them, and allowed them to accumulate, so I