Tactile illusions
by Sula Bermudez-Silverman
My book explores the relationship between the senses of touch and sight. The Braille on each page describes the textural image as if the viewer was able to physically touch it. One who cannot see the image can only feel the Braille to read what the image would feel like rather than look like.
Photos by Sula Bermudez-Silverman
pizza crust slightly blackened from a wood fire oven
Left: armadillo armor / Right: the molasses candy from the little house on the prairie
Left: pearlescent fossilized internal organs / Right: frozen oyster
Left: rock solid, erect nipple, masculine, artificial skin / Right: diamond tears
Left: electric gummy spaghetti / Right: silky seagrass
Left: porcupine spines / Right: a lost piece of the inner cheek
Left: graham cracker crumbs / Right: Iridescent sand