The artist has worked as a volunteer at the Institute for the Blind of Taiwan for more than a year, during which he contacted 12 persons of complete visual loss. After getting along with them for a while, the artist asked them, “What do you think of my appearance?” They described the artist’s appearance with “non-visual” experiences such as sound, smell, and movement. Then, he translated into the tactile writing system (Braille) the description, typed on a piece of cowhide equal to a person’s height. The embossed transcription is similar to rashes growing out of skin as well as to dateless ancient scroll maps. The artwork serves as a dialectic of visible and invisible, and as a reflection in pursuit of the external form of visual art. The visually abled have no access by Braille to the artist’s appearance, but the visually diabled who have learned Braille can “see” by the embossed code a more profound essence from the appearance.
