it is a very real threat many of us feel like we are trapped in a bubble of the artist flaw the un maina captured this feeling in his photo project social distance stacks in it everyone is in their own plastic bubble together and yet isolated it's a visual metaphor of this time and it begs the question can we ever truly connect with another without real closeness. when our existence in this world begins with this it allows us to perceive the outside world and others it's direct and void of filters or prejudices our sense of touch. but right now touch has become taboo as we and others are a potential danger getting close i mean 6 feet apart how does this lack of touch impact us. it's a question these 3. people know something about director of fog. art historian merely i'm no i my staff and. professor of human have to as a risk it kind of just to there's no such thing as virtual closeness that's an oxymoron our species only experiences closeness to another human being through some sort of physicality. and soon. touch is our very 1st sense. we feel long before we can smell taste hear or see