Braille Tattoos by Klara Jirkova:
body modification which purpose is not just to decorate the skin but to be touched and read. opportunity for blind people to have a meaningful body alteration, but also something what could be used by those who live or work with blind people as a new attempt to their way of perceiving
(excerpt from her site)
(128 votes, average: 4.58 out of 5)
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That is such a wonderful concept.
May I ask what this one reads as?
That’s “sun” in braille.
A very interesting idea — and it hurts less than conventional tattoos, I guess.
i like this idea , can you get it removed if you so wish?
this may sound like a stupid question, as i dont actually now who this is done, but i have seen it being done by implanting small shapes, stones, i presume this is a similar technique?
don’t mean to be rude but what a ridiculous idea.. tattooing the written word “sun” would be pretty boring to sighted people, so wtf do blind people want to rub someone’s skin and go “yeah wow. you got the word ’sun’ tattooed on you”…
Tattoos are visual art. Unfortunately, blind people miss out.
The sun is the *only* thing that makes blind people different from the sighted. Think about it, yo.
tattoos are in fact visual pieces of art but other forms of body modification do exist…this isn’t a tatoo but a scarification from the looks of it meant to express one’s individuality in a similar fashion…p.s. what about the people who get kanji tattooed on them…do you think japanese people look at them an go “yeah wow, you got the word “insert deeply profound expession” tattoooed on you”…
I want to get
“insert deeply profound expession”
tattooed on me. Heh.
errr… “expression”
I quoted someone, and ignored the typo.
I think it’s a nice concept.
Very cool, but “sun?” I would choose a concept rather than like… something a person who reads braille may have never seen.
But a blind person can *feel* the sun; it’s one way they can experience light as the sighted do. I love that choice!
i read about it on the website, and though i don’t really agree that it would be classified as a “tattoo”… i think the concept is rather sweet.
and it’s way, way cooler than a f**king kanji tattoo, i’m sorry.
“But a blind person can *feel* the sun; it’s one way they can experience light as the sighted do. I love that choice!”
She got it.
Don’t knock what a person feels is significant enough to them to permanently engrave onto their bodies until you understand it. Honestly.
“The sun is the *only* thing that makes blind people different from the sighted”
they feel the sun.. and can feel the braille tattoo…
also without the sun.. we would all be blind
I seems more like something you would get for yourself if you were blind. You could reach your hand over and feel it on your arm, like you could look at it if you were sighted.
I Think its beautiful and cool…also you don’t have to cover it up at work!!!lol….but still very nice
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