A Small Emblem Corpus on Touch and Tactility

A small working corpus of ten examples from Emblematica Online that involve touch, tactility, bodily contact, testing, holding, or sensory substitution. The goal is not yet to make a finished argument, but to build a set of examples that can support one. The most interesting pattern so far is that touch often appears as a way of knowing. It is not only decorative or emotional. A hand touches a…