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introduction:
As some of you already know, I'm a hand drawer. But this time the theme is the Braille which hands read.
I visited the house in France February in 2006 where Monsieur Louis Braille was born. He lost his sight at age 6 in an accident and invented the 2x3 dot matrix letters for blind people. I got to know about convex letters there, then came up with this idea.

Also I assume that most Japanese know "1" is called "one" or "uno" or whatever in whichever other languages, but we don't know how to write it in Braille. Why is that? That was one of my drives to start making this Braille art series.
It was my thought that combining with non-convex but colored dots and convex letters of various English font started with its alphabet shapes could be an art for people who see with eyes or people who see with hands.

All 26 characters, a-z, are introduced and all works are for sale (15,000yen each, including VAT, packing, and shipping domestic Japan).

For further information, international shipping, or purchasing works:

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what's on each piece:
1: an alphabet as a convex letter by English font started with its alphabet
2: English braille of its alphabet as color dots
3: an illustration of food started with its alphabet
4: its alphabet's pages from an old E-E dictionary
5: its font name in real Braille

media:
cardboard, gouache, white sumi ink, pencil, watercolor pencil, poster color, ash of sandalwood, old E-E dictionary, glue


1: whole image

2: colored dot and convex letter

3-4: food illustration and old E-E dictionary

5: font name in Braille (zapfino)

 

combination:
(alphabet): (font name), (food illustration)
a: antique olive, apple
b: baskerville, beans
c: copperplate, coffee
d: decorative, dill
e: edwardian Script, eggplant
f: footlight, fettuccine
g: garamond, garlic
h: helvetica, habanero chili
i: imperial, ice candy
j: jenson, jasmine
k: khaki, kiwifruit
l: lucida, lemon
m: marker felt, mangosteen
n: nightclubber, nasturtium (edible flower)
o: ocr, oyster
p: poppl, peach
q: quartz, quince
r: rendezvous, rosemary
s: stencil, sardine
t: trumph mediaeval, tomato
u: uncle stinky, urchin
v: viva, vanilla
w: wide latin, wheat
x: xylo, xo sauce
y: yan series, yolk
z: zapfino, zucchini

 
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