TOUCH WITH EYES
Touch With Eyes is a design duo formed by Alexander Kanygin and Anna Druzhinina. Their collaboration emerged through a shift in life conditions that pushed them toward a shared, nomadic way of making, one where place is never fixed and production remains close to the ground. Working across Europe, they operate with a mobile workshop set inside their car, allowing them to create on the move: in fields, on beaches, in parking lots, and in the mountains. This constant displacement shapes their practice as a form of attentive wandering, guided by what the landscape offers and by the quiet traces of human presence that persist even in remote settings. Their work begins with the act of noticing, collecting, selecting, and listening to matter before form.
Much of the duo’s sculptural work is made from sea-washed wood, pieces shaped by salt, water, abrasion, and chance before ever reaching the studio. Touch With Eyes treats this prior life as part of the design, preserving the material’s memory rather than erasing it. Their process is slow and physical: carving, sanding, assembling, and refining through direct contact, as if each decision must respond to what the material already contains. The result sits between sculpture and utility, inviting a tactile relationship with the world it comes from. In their hands, elements gathered from shores and roadsides are transformed into objects that carry atmosphere, evoking sun and wind, minerals and soil, salt and sand, so the viewer doesn’t simply look, but feels the landscape through form.







