Project 52 Week 7 - Textures

I am a very visual person. If I am visually interested in something I want to feel it's texture. In my youth this tactile curiosity caused me pain in the form of slivers of metal, wood and glass that had to be pulled from my hands and fingers. Over the years I grew wiser in my approach to the tactile exploration of objects. Textures are part of our memory that can trigger our emotions taking us back to some of the sweetest moments in our lives. My grandma Kautzman had a container full of buttons that she acquired over the years. There were so many colors, sizes, and textures. Then there were the specialty buttons that included brass, silver and crystal. Without fail, Grandma always had a button to match the one I had lost off a shirt. The button container was magical. I would often pull out the container, dump the buttons on the living room floor, shift a handful of buttons back and forth from hand to hand and Grandma and I would sit and talk. We talked for hours. Today we have our own button container. When I pick it up, open the lid and see the buttons, my heart fills with warm feelings of deep love for my Grandmother and I dwell in my memories of her as I shift a handful of buttons back and forth, from hand to hand.