Beyond the Boundaries

The skin is an important marker of our identity and
something we take pleasure to define. However,
with the current movement towards enforced
personal territories, mediated by measures such
as social distancing and mandatory masks, we live
in a society where the boundary between ourselves
and others is increasingly being demarcated.
The cultural defence of our corporal boundaries
enforces the concept of our skin as a firm border
that delineates our body. But does our body really
end at the skin? Or should we view our skin more as
a blurry, porous outlining, taking into consideration
that our body’s personal electromagnetic
energy field outspreads the skin by about 3 feet?
The concept of our skin as a firm border
that effectively separates us from others is
contested by taking a look at the measurable
interaction of our bio-field with that others,
ultimately blurring the distinction between ‘self’
and the ‘the other’. When acknowledging this
energetic dialogue, we direct attention away
from the notion of dividing opposites, but sense
an intimate interconnectedness between us.
In ToucH
Stef Will
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