Sculpture and Touch?

Denying an observer the right to touch a sculpture, which more than any other art form is created by direct hands-on touching, is absurd. The result is an impoverished, incomplete experience of the artwork. This taboo of not touching is not only restricted to artwork, but rather it spills over into everyday life. In the village where I live we have a saying, “Three hugs a day keeps you healthy,” but many adults never touch other human beings. The further we move towards online, mechanistic lifestyles, together with the possibility of sexual harassment charges for touching a fellow worker on the arm in a complimentary way, the more our quality of life as humans becomes compromised