Conference papers about the project
ICEB General Assembly conference paper
The grit in the oyster: braille enters the visual arts (doc 81 kb)"The metaphor of the oyster pervades our paper. An oyster is a natural filter - it feeds itself by filtering large volumes of water through its valves every day. A filter has special resonance for The Braille Window Project. Filters come in many different forms and are used in a variety of applications, including optics and photography, where they remove or block certain wavelengths (colors) of light. In photography, a filter is applied to the lens. It's illuminating to think of the braille window as a membrane of braille covering the 'lens' of the window, filtering the visible world and being nourished by the material it retains."
Arts Activated conference paper
Scene through a braille window: art and access meet on the street (doc 65 kb)"In his recent book, 'Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening', Stephen Kuusisto writes: "The ordinary street was as weird and lovely as the mind itself. All one had to do was stop". A little further on he says: "… visual sight-seeing is just an unending series of triggers. Object hits retina. The object is translated into analogy or metaphor. This is the core of visual pleasure. It is the thing we THINK we see that thrills us. The imagination is always trying to make sense of surprise … ".
