MANNEQUIN SENSATIONS

Touch

They are always polished, plane, and soft, but very hard and stiff.  Their lack of movement and natural surface makes you recognize that it is in fact a fake representation of your own race, although by following their form with your finger you experience quite a similarity.  Their proportions are recognized by our hands because they assemble our same bone and skin structure, so it is interesting to make the exercise of recognizing our parts in an object just using this sense.

Smell

Mannequins, despite the material they are made of, always bring the smell of the “new”.  They immediately are associated with new clothing stores that have that sense of plastic, unpolluted, fresh smell that many stores have.  They keep this smell especially because they are always wearing new clothing items that refresh it all the time.   Most of the fiber-glass made mannequins …   

Sight

Seeing a representation of you as an inanimate object is very different as observing another human being.  Especially when they are high-tech dummies, with the purpose of simulating the human form perfectly, we can never be cheated by one of these figures.  Their eyes and static manners can never be as real as our own, but they create a kind of mystery that makes us keep staring at them.  It’s interesting to notice their details, and finding out that probably the creator had to spend a lot of time analyzing his very particular forms in order to reproduce it.  

Hearing

Mannequins are hard and static.  They are usually stiff and produce hard drumming sounds when their parts crush together, but as most of them are hollow in the inside, there’s always an echo that guides you to perceive they are not as full of life as you are.

Taste

Mannequins have a cold taste.  Their surface extension and usual materials make them cold figures to the tongue.  It is difficult to perceive a generic taste in the diverse material mannequins, but the similarity is that it is hard to perceive them all.  Mannequins have a neutral taste that can’t be appreciated well because of their smoothness, so there is definitely a lack of perception with this sense.