Eric Sui "Touchy"

    This art work is made by Hong Kong artist Eric Sui and called Touchy. It is a machine that like a camera and after you put it on your head, your eyes become the lens. But you cannot see anything like blind since the lens are closed in normal situation. As we can see in the video, the artist just like a blind people that cannot see anything. But the interesting thing of this art work is that once other peoples touch your skin, the lens would open and after few seconds, the camera would take a photo and there is a screen at the back of the head and show the picture just taken. Therefore, the picture taken would just like what the artist is looking at. If he is looking at the girl, it would take a photo of that girl looking at the camera.

    It is a really interesting art work. It emphasis on the human relationship between others nowadays. In recent years, there is a funny situation that every people just look down to their cellphone or tablet on street or while they are on MTR, even when they are having dinner with other people! They have no communication between others. It is a senses that technology become a wall that separate people and make them have no conversation. This art work highly implied that. Once people interact with each other - touch the others's hand, face etc., the lens would open. The wall between people disappear and people can see the beautiful external world through eyes again! Eyes always seen as the soul of a human. Eye-to-eye contact is rare that nothing can replace with.

    Eric Sui is lived in Japan and this art work seems refers to current Japan social circumstance too. There is a group of people call "Otaku" in Japan. It means they are indoorsy. They will not step out to their home, even their room. They spends all the time to the computer, in video games or animation. They definitely have no communication with people. Just like this art work. They are masked by technology.

    Human is social animal. Communication is definitely very important to human in life. Technology is used to enhance human's life, but not to cover human'soul.