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Hi all,

I am hoping that artists and art exhibitors don't repeat the mistakes of
this one if they really want to include blind people in the art experience,
rather than just use the weird writing and the greasy fingertips to create
voyeuristic titillation for the sighted public. If a person who is blind or
has low vision wants to do photography that isn't accessible to other
people
who lack vision, that is a choice she or he makes. If a sighted artist
chooses to create photo art that can not be experienced directly by people
who are blind or have low vision, that is also a choice she or he makes.
But, no one should be claiming that she or he has created a way of bringing
"the aesthetic experience of visual art to both the blind and sighted" just
by putting together highly metaphoric poems in braille that do not actually
describe what is in the photographs to which they are attached, and
photographs with no truly tactile aspects and none of the poems in print on
or near them... It really annoys me, as you can tell.

Sylvie

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KOMO-TV, Washington State
Monday, August 01, 2005

Braille Art Allows Art Access To The Blind

By John Sharify

SEATTLE - When we go into a museum or an art gallery, we're told you can
look, but don't touch.

So why was Erin Lauridsen running her fingers through the photographs on
the wall at Seattle's Francine Seders Gallery?

It's because she's supposed to.

The photo exhibit by artist Spike Mafford is for her and for all the
people who can't see.

Erin has been blind since birth.

"I definitely got the rain imagery," she says as she reads the Braille
on the photograph.

She reads: "Clean is the taste of ocean salts. Cleaner is the rain, the
reel of tears that flood blue with pain."

Spike Mafford enlisted talented writers to write a poem describing his
photographs. The exhibit is called "Braille".

"There are 16 pieces total," Mafford says. He's pleased he can provide
access to the blind, but he says the show is also for the people who can
see.

It's to open their eyes to Erin's world.

The exhibit at the Francine Seders Gallery runs through Aug. 14.

For More Information:

www.sedersgallery.com


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