"This was one of the best openings I've ever been to here at Forum," blurted Kimberly McClure at the opening for the show this last week. The premiss for the show Please Touch was to gather an audience to critique and explore the idea of physical interaction as a key component in a work of art. Five Cranbrook artists (Tom Friel, Seth Keller, Corina Reynolds, Tricia Stackle, and Erin Yuasa) showed their work inviting the visitors to interact. Some of the works were playful, looking to children's toys as inspiration for ways to entice viewers to touch. Other works evoked the language of tools to communicate the message "please touch."
Erin Yuasa's sand boxes functioned beautifully in the space between aesthetic object and tool, inviting visitors to handle the paddles and funnels in the box while at the same time creating a space to think about the action of interacting, both with the object and the other people sharing the experience with you.
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