Hallowed Hair - Touch Response

"Besides being sexy to most people, head hair protects the brain from the sun's heat and ultraviolet rays, helps to insulate the skull, softens impact, and constantly monitors the world only a hair's breadth away from our body, that circle of danger and romance we allow few people to enter." Hair pg. 87

When reading this sentence, I had the mental image of hair being a kind of halo. Frequently in art, holy figures are crowned with a halo. This circle of light acts as shield. Since the halos frequently don't overlap, a set distance is created between the figures in the image. In some ways this happens in day to day life as well. Hair is not something that most individuals permit others to casually touch, like some people do with handshakes or hugs. In this way it creates an unspoken halo of personal space, which I depicted in a literal way, drawing inspiration of holy figures in art of the past.

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