Photographer Lisa J. Murphy has found a way to make porn truly touching with her bizarre Braille versions of nude images.
Thursday, April 15, 2010 17:21 GMT
TORONTO (Wireless Flash - FlashNews) – Porn has never been so touching – especially now that there’s a Braille version for the blind.Photographer Lisa J. Murphy has just created Tactile Mind, a book of nude images sculpted on thermoform plastic pages – the same material used in Braille paper.
All the lines, ridges, and crevices of the body parts are touchable, so the pictures can be enjoyed by the visually impaired. To fully feel the erotica, they each come with an accompanying description in Braille.
Murphy, who’s a volunteer at the Canadian National Institute For The Blind, calls the book a “labor of love.”
Each sexy image took her about 50 hours to sculpt so it would be interpreted accurately by the sightless.
Her tactile creations include a woman’s naked breasts, an uncircumcised penis and testicles, and a shaved vagina.
None of her art seems to be getting lost in translation because in her words, “Blind folks say my work is good. Wink, wink.”
haha. Bern this is fucked up and awesome. I know there has been braille pornography for a long time; issues of PlayBoy....but this? WOW! This is pretty funny and awesome at the same time.
ReplyDeleteHi there,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your article on my book.
My name is Lisa J. Murphy - I am the artist behind 'tactile mind':A book of nude (3-d) photographs for the blind/vision impaired.
Just so you know - I haven't volunteered at CNIB in years.
I have also never called this work pornographic. People everywhere have an opinion on this book, and have let it be known....
It has been called everything - "erotic", "sensual", "original art","fetish-orientated", and some people don't like it at all.
tactile mind is just a cool book of my photographs for blind and vision impaired readers.
I have always sold individual pages of my book from my website. As a 1 person publishing house producing my own work, I have always tried to make my work affordable to those who cannot afford the complete book.
Lisa
www.tactilemindbook.com
TACTILE MIND STUDIO LIMITED