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A photo of my own tactile artwork is the background pic. Face made in AI and pd png birds. Processed in old gen apps.
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April 2023 Contest: Reflections
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………With a pleasing ‘click’ when the right key is found! I went for tones & textures with Macro Mondays themed shot ‘Keyhole’ - a subject I thought would be easy but ended up rejecting many of the keyholes I found. Have a great week & ‘stay safe’. Alan:-) HMM……
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A bunch of shiny tactile indicators lining the pedestrian area around the circular driveway at the front of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital.
HMM.. the theme for today, 11/5, is "intended contact"-- so this is a stylus- my preferred tool of use with my ipad mini - demonstrating "touching".
btb, the fact that the colors are flickr colors is purely coincidental ~grin~... and yes, janet, i did go with the blue one today :)
A rich, texture-heavy shot of a thatched-roof ceiling filled with eclectic decor. This is where documentation exhales into myth. The objects are like stars, planets, and myths arranged by human hands.
Shooting straight up places the viewer inside the space, making the ceiling feel vast and immersive. The vertical converging lines of the chime echo the beams and pull you into the depth of the image.
Look at that star-faced ornament under the chime. The metallic wind chime dead-center is the strongest focal point. It’s sharp, bright, and hangs lowest in the frame, so the eye lands there first.
It humanizes the scene folk art meets surrealism. This is the soul of the space.
You’ve got at least 3 wagon wheels bolted to the ceiling. They’re huge, graphic, and impossible to miss. Wheels signal travel, cycles, desert caravans, and rustic craftsmanship. Their perfect circles break up all the rectangular beams and thatch. They’re visual anchors that stop the chaos from feeling random.
The central wind chime and wagon wheel anchor the image, but the surrounding objects kettles, lanterns, dried chilies, mirrors are deliberately asymmetrical. That tension between order and clutter gives it a folk-art, maximalist energy.
Warm earth tones dominate, punctuated by the silver chimes, turquoise teapot, and red chilies. The palette feels rustic Mediterranean or Southwestern. The back of the structure blows out to white. You can’t see what’s there, too bright to grasp.
Wagon wheels, metal teapots, star-faced wind chimes, dried peppers.. it reads like a cultural collage. The contrast of soft thatch, rough wood, smooth metal, and fragile glass creates huge tactile interest. You can feel this image it transports you.
Each object is a fragment of lived experience. A teapot = hospitality. A wheel = journeys taken. Chilies = heat, spice, survival. The mirror = self-reflection.
Such a storytelling space, for a ceiling this layered and folkloric with a fairytale tone, this works as both documentary and fine art. It’s not a quiet image it’s loud, tactile, and full of cultural narrative. Artistically, Chimes imply sound and movement. Even in a still photo, the word makes you imagine this space alive. Rustic objects turned musical, almost like they could sing together.
A large array of bright yellow tactile indicators on the deck of a split level cafe at the Flinders University recreation area in Tonsley Park.
A close-up of tactile paving seen next to a zebra crossing in Kingston.
More than 140 years after Louis Braille invented the Braille reading system, Seiichi Miyake came up with a different system based on touch that allows visually impaired people to navigate public spaces. Today, tactile paving is used by major cities and transportation services around the world.
Pavement with round bumps was meant to signal nearby danger, such as a street crossing or the edge of a train platform, while a stretch of pavement with straight bars was meant to guide them to safe areas. The tactile design allowed pedestrians to detect the features with canes, guide dogs, or their feet.
………Pressing ‘open’ doesn’t quite have the same pleasurable experience! Taken for Macro Mondays theme shot ‘Paper’ - Envelopes, the letter and the stamp are all made of paper and with little care will last for centuries, this one is from May 21st 1907 and the paper knife is a similar age too. Alan:-)……
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It is strange how just holding a smooth wooden ball, may have dramatic effect on us, bringing a calmness, stress, relief, refocus.... It's not magic but there is a mystery about the Peace that it brings.....
A very, very small area of the front of a vest. The material is rather like finely woven velour (very soft to the touch) and is printed with an abstracted floral pattern in cream, rust and soft green tones with black accents. The bokeh in the upper right is one of the vest's tiny gold and black coloured buttons.
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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, writer, editor, and literary critic.
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Submitted for the Macro Mondays theme "Cloth/Textile"
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This plant is in my front garden - it has really soft furry leaves which is why I bought it - it's so tactile. These berries (? not sure if they are berries - if I knew what it was called I'd look it up) are an unexpected bonus!
Happy Perfect Purple Saturday!
Thanks to Ghostbones for the texture.
Bärbel füttert die Stoffpuppe Lena, bevor sie ins Nachthemd umgezogen wird und ins Bett geht. Luis sieht sich das Tastbilderbuch auch einmal mit den Händen an und schließt dafür die Augen ... !!!
(Das sind die letzten beiden Tastbilderbücher, die ich vor vielen Jahren für Blinde und sehbehinderte Kinder nähte. "Meine Puppe Lena" heißt das eine, "Wo ist die Maus?" das andere. Luis und Bärbel haben keine Schlafaugen, und ich konnte nicht widerstehen, noch einmal ein Bild mit geschlossenen Augen zu machen !! 😊)
Bärbel feeds the rag doll Lena before she is changed into her nightgown and goes to bed. Luis looks at the tactile storybook once with his hands and closes his eyes for it ... !!!
(These are the last two tactile storybooks that I sewed for blind and visually impaired children many years ago. One is called "My doll Lena", the other is called "Where's the mouse?". Luis and Bärbel have no sleeping eyes and I couldn't resist taking snapping another picture with closed eyes !! 😊)
I'm sure many other cities have it too, but Hong Kong is quite impressive... parks, subway, shopping malls, schools, trains, many many streets are equipped with tactile paving for blind or visually impaired persons... this one in Shatin is just a tiny sample of a huge network of these "truncated domes" as they are called... I think.....
Sights, tactile experiences, smells—all are experienced inside the mind alone. None are “out there” except by us having named them. Everything we see, hear and touch is the direct interaction of energy and mind. Anything that we do not observe directly exists only as a haze of probability. “Nothing exists until it is observed.” ~ John Wheeler
Shingle Street is always a good sight, but is it there when I'm not there to witness it?
Vor vielen Jahren entwarf und nähte ich Tastbilderbücher für Blinde und sehbehinderte Kinder. In diesem Buch ist die erste Hälfte des Alphabets in Blindenschrift mit Perlen tastbar und in Normalschrift in Kontrastfarben für jene mit Sehrest sichtbar.
Many years ago I designed and sewed tactile picture books for blind and visually impaired children. In this book, the first half of the alphabet is tangible with pearls in Braille and visible in contrasting colours for those with remaining sight.
A high-contrast study of texture and form, mapping the smooth, sculptural lines of a human hand against the chaotic, decaying layers of dried palm bark.