Touch Therapy
Touch Therapy: Form and Consciousness is a multi-media project based on an old exploration into psychotherapy by Dr. Verner Ferlein.  Dr. Ferlein surmised that touching various forms and textures in proscribed ways had a therapeutic effect on certain psychological conditions.  The project examines a some of the strategies and experiments employed in the field of Touch Therapy, including several of the more notable failures.
 
Doug Buis wishes to thank the Kamloops Arts Council and the City of Kamloops Arts Legacy Fund for their support of this project.
 
Doug Buis
British Columbia, Canada
Mountains and Clouds (2005). The 48” high mountain sits under the cover of a viewer-activated cloud cluster that inflates and deflates as if breathing.
Artist Bio
Doug Buis’ work captures social, environmental and technological issues by way of mechanical apparatus, stereo photography, portable gardening, video installation and hand crafted virtual reality.  
 
Doug participated in CAFKA.05: X Industria with his installation Mountain Splitter.
 
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