{"id":431,"date":"2009-04-15T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/04\/braille_graffiti\/"},"modified":"2009-04-15T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T20:03:10","slug":"braille_graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/04\/braille_graffiti.html","title":{"rendered":"Braille graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a project<\/a> from 2007 that deserves to be revived and spread, from Scott Wayne Indiana<\/a> in Portland, Oregon. <\/p>\n

(Click images to enlarge)<\/p>\n

\"BrailleGraff3.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>
\"BrailleGraffiti1.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n

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Two years earlier in Seattle, Spike Mafford<\/a> made an attempt to connect with the blind in a photo exhibit at Francine Seders Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"francinesedersblind.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>
\"spikebraille.jpg\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Twenty-five years before that, Buster Simpson<\/a> mounted a series of Cherry tree branches along Pine Street, from the Pike Place Market to First Avenue. Along the underside were messages in Braille. It was part of Simpson’s failed campaign to save a Cherry tree from developers’ plans to remove it. After he lost, he used parts of the tree for a range of art projects, none of which are online. Late Simpson does not appear to value early Simpson. His Web site tracks only projects from 1989 onward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here’s a project from 2007 that deserves to be revived and spread, from Scott Wayne Indiana in Portland, Oregon. (Click images to enlarge)   Two years earlier in Seattle, Spike Mafford made an attempt to connect with the blind in a photo exhibit at Francine Seders Gallery. Twenty-five years before that, Buster Simpson mounted a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}