Shedding Light
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Description
"Explores the book as a tactile object in the extreme and the importance of light and touch within the reading process. Taking away the book's usual visual narrative clues, the seeing reader is left with little traditional visual information with which to decode the presented 'text', but instead is faced with Braille text implicitly inviting them to feel the narrative. Help is provided in the form of a visual Braille alphabet card to assist readers to decipher the Braille and read the narrative that is hidden from conventional view. However, through a thorough physical exploration of the book, the reader may or may not discover a textual narrative on the reverse of the page. By shedding light through the page the book easily slips out of its felt cover and can be held up to the light, the sighted reader is given a textual translation of the Braille, emphasizing the need for light within the reading process. The ambiguous title relates to both the loss of light implied by the Braille, as well as the casting of light across the book needed for the text based reading." - Heather Weston
Publisher
Bookery
Subject
Diverse perspectives, disabilities
Extent
7" x 5.5"
Style
Braille print book with a binding created by folding paper and a felt cover
Material
Mixed media: Felt and stitching book cover, paper
Technique
Braille print on paper; Offset lithography
Date
2005
Recommended Citation
Weston, Heather, "Shedding Light" (2005). Rollins College Book Arts Collection. 7.
https://scholarship.rollins.edu/book_arts/7
Other Information
Edition 43 of 150. More information can be found here: vampandtramp.com/finepress/w/weston.html