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.
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tactile femme – new work.
tactile femme – new work produced in 2019. Check it out.
A beautiful Friday making ‘tactile mind’:A book of nude photographs for the blind and vision impaired.
Dragged thermoform machine, thermoform plastic, and tactile diagram master (Braille) pages outside today and got some vitamin D. Kept expecting a pigeon to crap on the buffet of master pages, but my luck held out. Unfortunately, my thermoform machine was being tempermental and I ended up with a lot of wasted thermoform plastic diagram pages; they creased under the heat of the oven before the vacuum turned on. Also, Naked Pink Elephant / Diagram 5 lost a forearm. Tragic. You know when you do a lot, but actually nothing gets done? That was my day. So now I’m relaxing with some fresh mango, and a haagen-dazs bar. Happy Friday.
Lisa J. Murphy
Tactile Mind Studio Ltd.
What was the process for creating tactile diagrams for ‘tactile mind’?
For her tactile diagrams, Lisa began with an idea of what she would like to photograph, and who. She would make the majority of masks and costumes from household goods, grab a subject, dress them up, and start shooting with 35mm film and her trusty manual Nikon. When she received her photographs back from the lab, Lisa would then decide which one might work the best for tuning into a tactile diagram and would go from there.
1. Lisa would enlarge the photograph to a size she would want to work with.
2.Lisa would then layer and build the photograph upwards with clay, metal,cardboard, string – anything that wouldn’t burn or give off toxic fumes at high heat.
3. This diagram would then go into an oven to bake/set – hopefully not breaking / cracking with the heat.
4. Out of the oven, the diagram would cool and then be placed in the thermoform machine with a piece of heavy Braillon (aka. thermoform plastic) on top – hopefully not breaking / cracking with the heat.
5. 3-D imprint is made into the plastic, and the page is taken to a blind proofreader for feedback.
6. Steps 2-5 then repeated until diagram is done to the best of her abilities, and is completely understandable by a proofreader(s); correctly depicting her photograph.
-Each image would take approximately 50 hours in total; from conception to completion.