Erin Moutz Art Blog

" Touch is a powerfully important sense among animals, for whom the slightest touch of an object or another animal triggers a response. " I believe that this was a reason stuffed animals were created, to enhance our human senses of touch. These images represent our need for animal interaction is as important as human to human interaction, and their touch triggers a similarly intense reaction for us.

" We tend to think of torture in the name of beauty as an  aberration of the ancients, but there are modern scourging parlors. "  Society has changed the concept of pain. Somehow, we can accept certain pains and rebuff others. "No pain no gain" or "Beauty is pain". These drawings are meant to represent the things people do to themselves every day, inflicting their own pain and calling it normal.