This book discusses the importance of the body in perceptive cognition and human-to-human co-presence and attempts to build an argument, using research in the fields of philosophy, social science, neuroscience, architectural theory, and cultural anthropology, qualitative field research and a body of artwork. As a researcher, I developed a field study and embedded myself as a participant with each of the eighteen volunteers in order to obtain first-hand experience, and to locate for myself in a very visceral way, what constitutes the communicative event between individuals. Combining and comparing my own experience with responses from the participant group, I was able to formulate significant conclusions regarding embodied cognition and use these in the production of a body of work. These, together with my practice-based research and history as a figurative artist, have result- ed in an interdisciplinary body of work, titled The Intimacy of Presence.