The World of a Sensory Response

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A s m r stands for autonomous sensory meridian response. A work by marctesie, the skin on phone device, where he imagined what a phone case would look like if it mimicked his own skin. We also hae another work by the artist tobeus bradford called immeasurable thirst which sits in the room slowly dripping saliva.

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