Here's a detail of the FDR Memorial incorporating Braille as a design motif. Instead of raised bumps, there are small dips; my only explanation for this is that a Braille plate must have been inverted in the process of making these decorations.
I wonder if someone who knows Braille could actually read this inscription (like a sighted person trying to read text reflected backwards in a mirror?).
P.S. For more on this memorial, see this earlier posting.
Friday, October 30, 2009
FDR Memorial: Braille, Inverted
Labels:
art,
braille,
government,
monument,
national mall,
sculpture
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