Please Touch the Art:A Look into Visual Art as an Interactive Experience

"Please Touch the Art" encapsulates a transformative approach to engaging with art, departing from traditional static presentations. Drawing on personal experiences of feeling disconnected in conventional art spaces, the artist crafts an interactive piece designed to challenge established norms. This puzzle-like creation invites viewers to physically interact, explore, and manipulate its watercolor swirls, thereby fostering a deeper connection and understanding. The artwork features vibrant, whimsical swirls that defy conventional representation, emphasizing the joy of creation and aesthetic appreciation. Constructed from MDF puzzle pieces mirroring the organic shapes of the swirls, the piece beckons tactile exploration. Presented on a metallic arch-shaped surface with a gold frame, the work intentionally echoes the puzzle elements, inviting viewers to engage at torso-level to appreciate its fluid design. Inspired by contemporary artists like Heather Brown and Nancy Graves, who push boundaries with color and structure, the artist seeks to redefine how art is experienced and valued. Influences also extend to creators like Isamu Noguchi and Leslie Mutchler, who embrace playfulness and discovery in their work. The painting's lively style draws from the artist's surroundings in Austin reflecting a personal journey through art and a culmination of her college experience. "Please Touch the Art" aims to foster intimacy and connection by dismantling barriers between observer and object. Encouraging viewers to actively participate in the creative process, the artwork prompts a profound appreciation for art's beauty and joy, inspiring others to discover art within themselves.Art and Art Histor

1973 projections of consumption, production, prices and crop values for Texas winter lettuce and early spring onions

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Psychological Ownership of Simple Jobs: The Effect of Job Crafting

Previous research on the relationship of job characteristics and psychological ownership has primarily focused on the specific dimensions of work and possessive behaviors and their impact on employees in complex jobs. This study takes a new path by examining how psychological ownership can be increased for a previously unexamined group, employees in simple (i.e., routine and repetitive) jobs. Based on 2016 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports, almost 60% of jobs in the U.S. workforce could be considered to be simple or low in complexity. This study intends to investigate the answer to the following key research question: Can psychological ownership be increased for simple jobs with the inclusion of job crafting? The study proposes that job crafting can be used to make cognitive and physical changes in the task and/or relational boundaries for simple jobs. A large portion of the research in this study involved teasing apart the job crafting, job characteristics, and psychological ownership constructs to specifically determine what variables may relate to higher psychological ownership in the simple jobs. This early examination of the presence and realization of psychological ownership in simple jobs establishes new insight on the relationship of job crafting and psychological ownership being serially mediated by job characteristics (as depicted in the JCM) and the routes to psychological ownership in simple, routine, and repetitive jobs

Seasonal feeding habits of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Bodd.) in young loblolly pine (pinus taeda L.) plantations

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Corrosion in Produced Water Desalination and Treatment Facilities

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