Beginners tactile mind

At times, I feel creatively confined in several ways, both externally (think material properties, cost, lack of skills) and internally (self-doubt, anxieties and other foes of creativity). One of the external confines has to do with materials at my disposal. with my photographer's hat on, I have explored the printing pictures on materials other than photographic paper: rice paper, aluminum foil, egg shell for transferring the picture on other surfaces. All those adventures satisfied for a while. But for the most part, the pictures remain 2D, materials remain flat.
And I find myself digressing into dark avenues of other art forms, exploring other materials, expanding the tactile experience or those. No shortage of the dark avenues there is. when itched for new tactile experience, I work with metal, wood, pearls -  end-result being jewelry, for example. It is an immense pleasure to take a piece of metal, touch it with a hammer, or bend it with awareness of the resistance, bouncing back, and yielding to the external force. How does the finish of the silver change the feeling we experience by looking or touching. And how scratch-resistant a perl really is? how do materials combine together? the tactile meditation.