contact me: send me a ripple
i’ve been in the process of website world evolution - and at the moment it’s mostly happening in my head. but, while walking luna this morning, an image came to me for my “contact me” page — that of two hands touching, just their fingers; like a more feminine, minimalist, poetic version of that famous micheleangeo painting, which i later realized is called “the creation of adam.”
but i didn’t want to channel god-and-adam-vibes in my “contact me” page, so i began thinking about other ways of touching, with two hands, and after browsing a few photos on pinterest, i came upon images of a hand touching water, a hand touching a mirror — and then i drew this illustration above.
the questions i’m asking myself
what if “contact me” via this portal of a digital universe could be — an embodied thing — rather than just filling out a form?
what if contacting me could feel like any other number of more poetic, mystical, and magical things, like, i don’t know, contacting extraterrestial life, contacting a spirit animal, contacting the inspiration within, or mundane things, like dropping a pebble into the bottom of a deep well, and seeing its ripples?
this is just a thread i’m exploring these days, that of:
how can web interactions feel both more real and human, and yet more surreal? dreamlike; yet embodied?
if my website were a physical world: it would be a dense, jungly island. maybe there’d be crystal bowls of water floating in the ether, and you’d contact me by touching the glass-bowl of water, until it made ripples, and a soft, ringing sound, like a tibetan bell, or wind chimes. (upon writing this, it reminds me of dumbledore’s pensive, in harry potter.)
isn’t the act of contacting a stranger on the internet — a bit like looking into a mirror, a deep well — with a bit of mystery and uncertainty; that is, not always certain that you’ll hear back?
also, PS to myself — i haven’t drawn hands in so long. i need to work on my hand-anatomy skills.
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the last time I drew hands was…
birth of my hand shadow (2022)
hands in relationship (summer 2019)