touch

The Sense of Touch. The DNA helices spiral around an aluminium hand waving in the breeze. Cast from a mannequin hand, the fingers are exaggerated in length and tactility. To heighten the sense of touch, prickly and soft species grow to each side, Scots thistle and nettles versus dock weed and lamb's ear. The structure of DNA, the sugars and phosphates, are here made from oak, the letters A, T, C, G from steel, and the hydrogen bond from a twist. A ring at the top holds the ugly, tightly coiled DNA and forms a dome over the hand that rests on twists that break through the slabs, below.