Responses for Touch Chapter Reading

HAIR
"Each hair grows for only about two to six years, at about five or six inches a year, and then its follicle rests for a few months, the hair falls out, and is eventually replaced by a new hair. So when you see a beautiful head of hair, you're looking at hairs in many different stages in a complex system of growth, death, and renewal. Fifteen percent of it is resting at any one time, the other 85 percent growing; many dozens of hairs are all set to die tomorrow, and deep in the follicles new hairs are building."

I decided to draw this because I could show all of the detail as far each individual hair. I thought it was interesting how you can have a full head of hair and so many of them can be in different stages of growth/life. Even hair towards the top of your head can be dying, not just at the bottom. 

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THE HAND

"The swirls run through a few basic patterns of whorls, loops, and arches, but combine in endlessly different ways. Not even identical twins have the same fingerprints, which makes guilt a lot easier to establish when it is necessary to do so. The idea of one's fingerprints being the ultimate personal signature isn't new."


The part of this text that stuck out to me the most was when it talked about how not even identical twins have the same fingerprints. Every fingerprint is unique in its own way. I decided to make fingerprints out of yarn to show texture and detail up close. Even though they look very alike, they are extremely different.