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There Is A Connection Between Touch And Loneliness, And The Feelings They Generate

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There Is A Connection Between Touch And Loneliness, And The Feelings They Generate

How do we negotiate the vagaries, the transformations and the possible death of our feelings?

Memories With Water “miniature installation” by Riyas Komu, recycled wood and plastic, 2019-2022. Komu enacts the rituals of a Muslim Burial: (ghusl) washing, (kafan) wrapping and (dafan) burial of a human body Photo: Jiten Gandhi

‘I believe I have many feelings. The more I observe, the more feelings become available to me.’ She laughed unexpectedly, making me start. ‘In that case,’ she said, ‘maybe you shouldn’t be so keen to observe.’

—Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

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