Sugar for my mule (braille card) - from Bifidus Jones

[Marie Wintzer]

I can't believe I nearly missed the braille script on Bifidus's postcard. I was looking at it for several days without noticing anything. I even read Karen Champlin's blog post about a braille card she got from Bifidus, but it only struck me now. I don't know if you can see it, it is very subtly haptic and maybe only meant to be explored by fingers. And since this is Bifidus he placed it on a sea of wavelets for an even stronger chameleon effect. If you think about Cheryl's hyper-haptic books, this is at the other end of the spectrum,the epitome of micro-haptic. A hidden story within the postcard, genius stuff again from Bifidus, thank you so much for sending!

If everything was sugar
There would be no sugar
What would mules be
If everything was haptic
There would be no haptic
What would touching be

[Marie Wintzer]

thanks :-))

[Bifidus Jones]

Nice poem btw, Marie

[Marie Wintzer]

bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble.....
Yes, it is quite a haunting piece isn't it? I don't know where Bifidus gets his sources, there is a kind of unity in the material he uses, or is it the way he puts it together?

[Jen Staggs]

Also, I am always intrigued by Bifidus' sources- that hand looks like a Byzantine reliquary. And the faces in the sea are haunting me!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Look at those beautiful waves and figures! What a card! And yes, the Braille is so subtle, I missed it at first, too, on my card. It is a pity we cannot smell or touch on the internet! This is gently haptic.

[cheryl penn]

A BEAUT! I'm going with an Atlantis image.

[Jen Staggs]

I like the challenge of subtle haptics....I can work with that...like those poofy postcards. They pop if you squeeze them hard enough, otherwise they are lady-like and quiet.

[De Villo Sloan]

Can't say enough about the brilliance of bringing Braille - a language read by touch - into haptic poetry. Imagine the possibilities if this avenue were taken even further.

[Marie Wintzer]

Dammit, I didn't see the figures in the water!! And I HAVE looked at it for quite a while. Funny how the brain works. The braille being the bubbles of the fish, loooove it even more.

[Bifidus Jones]

Funny you nearly missed the Braille. I didn't see the figures floating in the water until I started punching out the Braille letters, and decided it was a good reminder to pay better attention to my subconscious. I wanted the Braille (it says Haptic Mail art 2010) to also look like the bubbles of the breathing fish. But I must say how happy I am that the Braille doesn't really show up on the internet. It's Haptic-ness only works when someone has my mail art in his or her hands. I like that.