The Intimacy of the Everyday

From a young age, Oscar Morel exhibited an interest in feeling, touch, and texture. “My mom used to call me Toca Mano — her nickname for ‘touchy’ — because whenever I would walk, I’d touch walls or play with plants and get allergic reactions,” he says.

Morel, one of this winter’s visual arts fellows at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center, sits on a black stool in his studio. The eight tables surrounding him are piled high with fabric, dried oil paint, canvas, fleece blankets, markers, pastels, respirator masks, and old National Geographic magazines.

Read the full article written by Pat Kearns in The Provincetown Independent.