The Braille Project

Lightbulbs Are For Sissies! (2015)

Braille poem reads:

LIGHTBULBS ARE FOR SISSIES!

Details: 24″ x 36″ x 2″ acrylic & mixed media on canvas.

PLEASE DO TOUCH (2015)

Braille poem reads:

PLEASE DO TOUCH

Details: 32″ x 32″ x 2″ acrylic & mixed media on canvas.

Love You Like Monster (Me) (2015)

Braille poem reads:

Love you like monster!

Details: 12″ x 12″ x 2″ acrylic & mixed media on canvas. Available individually or within a diptych. 

Love You Like Monster (You) (2015)

Braille poem reads:

Love you like monster!

Details: 12″ x 12″ x 2″ acrylic & mixed media on canvas. Available individually or within a diptych. 

155 H’S (2015)

Braille poem reads:

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! 

(with 155 h’s)

Details: 20″ x 40″ x 2″, acrylic, string & mixed media on canvas

GUTS SPILL (2015)

Braille poem reads:

Let the guts of this song spill under your feet and soak the floor. Let the muscles of this music grab the walls and shake them.

You don’t know it but the boy in the room below is lonely and is listening with you.

(repeated)

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Details: 45″ x 58″ x 2″, acrylic & mixed media on canvas

PUT ON YOUR COAT (2015)

Braille poem reads:

Put on your coat, this coat. We’ve gotta get out of here, my little agoraphobe! Let’s escape the flat landscape and go where there’s lumps and mistakes, and cracks in the sidewalk and slippery disaster! It will feel rough and it will feel late and we’ll never know what the ground is going to do. But we will find lines and lines bent into circles and points and people and animals, oh! the animals! It will be terrible it will be wonderful. Sometimes your coat and keys run away, without you. And sometimes your coat float up up up up up up up up and takes you with it.

Details: 30″ x 96″ x 2″, acrylic, string & mixed media on canvas

WHILE THE OTHERS ALL KEEP RUNNING (2015)

This piece was commissioned by Carlyn and Company Interiors & Design for The Mosaic District, in Fairfax VA.

Braille poem reads:

Here are the words that stuck.

We met at the movies, on benches in books, on dates under umbrellas. They hunted me home, chased me up the stairs, sat in waiting at my piano. Now they wrap around the architecture of the city to stay close, floating up to balconies, through glass and noise. They travel with me, these stubborn things, on trains tumbling to larger places and back. These are the ones that stuck the dear and the sad they’re here for now by my bed at night while the others, they all keep running, and I don’t even know to miss them.

—— Details: 30″ x 63″ acrylic & mixed media on canvas.

YOU (2014)

Braille text is repeated & layered for visual interest, but is still clear and legible for the braille reader. It reads: 

you you you 

(repeated)

---- Details: 6" x 6" x 1" acrylic & mixed media on wood panel. Fourth segment of a quadriptych titled THIS/ IS/ FOR/ YOU. 

---- YOU is the fourth piece in the quadriptych set: THIS/ IS/ FOR/ YOU. It can be purchased individually or within the set. 

FOR (2014)

Braille text is repeated & layered for visual interest, but is still clear and legible for the braille reader. It reads:

for for for for 

(repeated)

---- Details: 6" x 6" x 1" acrylic & mixed media on wood panel. Third segment of a quadriptych titled THIS/ IS/ FOR/ YOU. 

---- FOR is the third piece in the quadriptych set: THIS/ IS/ FOR/ YOU. It can be purchased individually or within the set. 

IS (2014)

Braille text is repeated & layered for visual interest, but is still clear and legible for the braille reader. It reads:

is is 

(repeated)

---- Details: 6" x 6" x 1" acrylic & mixed media on wood panel. Second segment of a quadriptych titled THIS/ IS/ FOR/ YOU. 

---- IS is the second piece in the quadriptych set: THIS/ IS/ FOR/ YOU. It can be purchased individually or within the set. 

THIS (2014)

Braille text is repeated & layered for visual interest, but is still clear and legible for the braille reader. It reads:

this this this 

(repeated)

---- Details: 6" x 6" x 1" acrylic & mixed media on wood panel. First segment of a quadriptych titled THIS/ IS/ FOR/ YOU. 

---- THIS is the first piece in the quadriptych set: THIS/ IS/ FOR/ YOU. It can be purchased individually or within the set. 

THIS FRIENDSHIP (2014)

The braille poem is repeated down the painting, emerging from the paint at the top and partially obscured, and then clear and legible by the bottom. The text borrows Jorge Luis Borges’s words from his essay titled “Blindness”:

Yellow is still with me, even now. 

This friendship.

(repeated)

—— Details: 24” x 36” x 1.5" acrylic & mixed media on canvas.

---- By Faye Harnest & Devon E. Sioui for Please Do Touch!; a collaborative tactile braille paintings series.

NO PARADES FOR HOUSECATS (2014)

Braille poem reads:

All the confetti heaps of confetti herds of balloons drums roll cymbals crash our weekend parade.

Arm in arm it is all confetti. We don’t have to wait anymore it’s the weekend and we’ve punched our week’s stories into confetti.

And next weekend drums roll cymbals crash ukuleles kazoos trumpets tubas strutting the streets in our weekend parade. Arm in arm it is all confetti.

Then we’ll come home to our cat she’s glad the weekend’s over.

---- Details:  24" x 36" acrylic & mixed media on canvas. 

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By Faye Harnest & Devon E. Sioui for Please Do Touch!; a collaborative tactile braille paintings series.

HERE IS A POCKET OF TWO HOURS (2014)

 Braille text reads an original poem by author Faye Harnest:

Here is a pocket of two hours. The going and going along outside, the bear drinking your beer, the storm surging, but here is a pocket; we’ve got two hours. We’ll jump on the bed, lint and spare change flying.

---- Details: 12" x 12" x 1.5" acrylic & mixed media on canvas.

---- By Faye Harnest & Devon E. Sioui for Please Do Touch!; a collaborative tactile braille paintings series.

HERE ARE THE WORDS THAT STUCK (2014)

 Braille poem reads:

Here are the words that stuck.

---- Details: 12" x 12" 1.5" acrylic & mixed media on canvas.

__________ By Faye Harnest & Devon E. Sioui for Please Do Touch!; a collaborative tactile braille paintings series.

IT’S COLD IN HERE (2014)

Braille poem reads:

It’s cold in here

Details: 18″ x 24″ x 1.5″ acrylic, string & mixed media on canvas