Without view, just leaving
our hands to look out for the clues, in the very beginning of the course, we lost the sense
of sight to approximate each other only by touch, pressure, caress, handle,
palpate. Touch produces different sensory information to that
provided by the eye... it’s not just reactive but also active (Sherrington,
C. 1906 The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, en Sennet, R. 2099. El
Artesano, Barcelona: Anagrama;
189). By
disabling the sense of sight we took under concern other facts of recognition
such as weight, softness, warmth and movement that usually are not relevant at
a first contact, and we considered hands as the basic instrument for exploring
the unknown.
