A red fimo and sculpey mix, creating a sculpture of a woman’s inner thigh area. This diagram is not yet included in my project. I finished it eons ago, and forgot to add it. The Braille will read ” Her hand reaches further down between her legs and her middle finger enters her anus”.
tactile femme is a project I completed in 2019. The following image is a clay sculpture of a woman’s inner thighs, her clitoris, labia & anus. Wire mesh is used for pubic hair. The mesh has a great texture.
A great example of my stellar drawing skills (not!). Usually I photograph my subjects, so this was an entirely new pandemic experience for me. This is image 2. I ended up using the bit of sculpture picture as the title for my web page, but not without posting this one first. It is just pencil on plain white paper. I drew it sitting at my backyard patio table.
So I turned this image on its side to post, just for kicks. It is a sculpture of a woman on all fours, with a saddle on her back, a blindfold on her eyes, and a bit in her mouth. Materials used are fimo, sculpey, cereal box cardboard, netting, twine, ribbon, and a small metal loop.
A photograph of the sculpture I made for image 3. It is a naked woman wearing a gas mask with her arms and legs tied to points out of view. I used fimo, sculpey, cardboard, twine, mesh, carpet tape & ribbon to create this work. It is mounted on a piece of Braille paper, ready for the thermoform machine.
I just finished a new project (March 2021) named tactile cordage. This work consists of 5 tactile thermoform images of Women in Rope, with grade-one Unified English Braille accompaniment. Because of Covid-19, I drew the images to sculpt from, rather than photograph people.
Tactile Mind Studio Limited uses thermoform plastic for tactile images and Braille descriptions. This is a very sturdy material and pages can be sprayed and gently wiped with disinfectant. tactile mind book and tactile atelier bookmark both have paper accompaniments which can be held back and mailed (at no extra expense) when the pandemic passes.
Please follow ‘tactilemind’ on Instagram. I actually just began posting a few days ago.
tactile femme – new work produced in 2019. Check it out.