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Hi Friends,

Before you attend the braille reading – realized by my friend Javier;

A brief background about the basis of my architecture Dada86 Art Library– for visually impaired people and artists.

In 2009, when I lived in the city of Madrid, I met a wonderful person – Laura, who worked selling lottery tickets in a small ticket booth – where next to her was her beautiful dog – a golden Labrador. One day when I was a bit overwhelmed, I passed by her work place, and chatting for a while, I was struck by how happy Laura was, although for her it was impossible to see the world, to see the sky, to see the sun.
Laura said to me:

– Hey Mary, don’t be sad, look! You can see!
I would like to see Paris, for example…. – Is the city of love!

And even if I buy a ticket and go there – I won’t see anything!

Of course it will be even more complicated to travel with my dog.

At that moment, looking at her dog’s eyes through the lottery window, I realized that Laura was right – anyway, I could travel to the city of love!
I could see the sun, the sky! I have everything!
To express my gratitude to Laura for her inner vision, it occurred to me to take a portrait of her dog, so I didn’t hesitate to the next day bring my 35m Pentax K1000 camera and take a beautiful portrait of her.
It was a sunny morning and she was very happy to have a memory with her dog.
I then brought the picture to relief so that she could save it, and see it whenever she wanted to.
Time went by, and one of my best friends – Alice, invited me to Paris – where I came up with the idea of documenting my trip through my camera, and embossing all the photos for Laura.
At that time, I realised that reliefs were extremely expensive, and not all of them had good definition, so I had to create my own technique – and make all the relief photos myself by hand.
That’s how – Rose came about – an installation curated by Elvis Fuentes and exhibited at the Kumu Museum – Tallinn.

In 2011 – already living and studying cinema in the city of love and lights – where I didn’t hesitate to move to, after my trip – Karucel was born – the first 16mm film I wrote and directed, and where instead of working with actors – I worked with a visually impaired couple – both guided by love.
My producer Karlyn Sovied – screamed with gasps when I told her – I didn’t want to work with actors, but to capture the invisible to the human eye – so I did.
For this piece I had to create a relief storyboard, and it was wonderful to explore the direction of light before the invisible.
The most beautiful thing about the film – at presentations and festivals – is that no one noticed that the protagonists were visually impaired – I worked with their abilities, putting aside the disability.

Through my artistic experience – in 2016 the intellectual bricks for the construction of my architecture concept – adapted to visually impaired people and artists – emerged.

The new perspective of my ceation – is based on the ability of visually impaired people, and not on their disability.

With this brief flash -back-
Currently in collateral to my creations, I am working on a painting programme – in which I collaborate with Javier – in his hands is the first reading of examples of a braille printer – as well as the development of my techniques adapted to the artistic expression of visually impaired people – under the name of Wings – which will be shown on this page – every Thursday at 17:30.
It will be wonderful – so – alert – stay connected!

All clear now,

with joy I invite you join the reading- visible to the eyes and hearts of all 🌈

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In the first part of the braille reading – Javier, he is helping me to define the quality of the printer – For Dada86 Art Library.
The document was sent from Norway, and is in English – it contains all the technical data of the machine, including its speed and embossing quality.

Now – the explorations of printers and printing machines – are closely related to my architecture.

From the beginning I decided that – In my architectural plans – the second floor of my creation – will be composed of braille books.

So for those unfamiliar with braille printers – this example comes from a Braillo B-450 2.1.

It’s a wonderful machine, no doubt – but too big for Dada86 Art Library –

Therefore – after a research and logistical understanding of braille books, I realised that the best way to compose the second floor – is to print the books with a printer adapted to the architectural space.
So all the print machine explorations, with their respective relief powers – are an essential part in the development of my architecture.

Now about Braille reading,

After the exploration of Braillo B – 450 2.1, in direct collaboration with Javier – I decided that for Dada86 Art Library – it would be much better to work with another type of machine – smaller and handling another format – A4.

Is most effective to print the books in braille that will compose the second floor of the architecture.

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At the second reading, we explored my ink representation techniques, and their accessibility to the reading touch – with one of my fish from the collection – SelFish Blues.

As Dada86 architecture is dedicated to the artistic development of visually impaired people – through the knowledge of artists – I continue to search for new forms of expression.
And precisely – ink on paper – which creates a small relief and makes the painting visible to the touch.
In this case we were starting from a complex drawing of a fish – which has several layers and many lines of information. I am very happy that my friend was able to see it, and that gives me a good starting point – to explore complex forms and once again work with ability rather than inability.

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In the third stage, we made the first freehand drawing with ink and pen.
It was wonderful that the cafe we were in had marble tables and classical music – which helped to develop the pulse.
We also talked about different relief possibilities and it is at this point that the painting atelier – Wings –

Gratefulness to my loved ones, family, brothers, sisters, friends – all those who during this time have followed my path of building the Libreria Dada86 – I love you all 💙