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Taxi Hand Signs for the Blind

Item date(s): 2009

Susan Woolf


Pages: unpaged
Size: 313mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: One of 7 copies.


Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA
Publisher: Artists Book

Additional notes:
White wooden box with glass framed lid and brass clasp and white cotton ribbon to lift pages out of the box.

Fourteen pages international standardised braille.

Eleven pages of tactile shapes embossed on two levels of raised dots. Printed by Blind SA (Phillip Jordaan).

With small copy (105mm) housed in plastic folder and with sheet of ten postage stamps signed by the artist and dated 269/01/2010.

Derivative of the spiral-bound version of the Taxi Hand Sign Book for the Blind published by ada enup.

With two edition prints bl/w. Edition 3/20 included in art book. Taxi hand sign tactile symbols.

Pseudonom: Mathabo.

This artbook was launched concurrently with the aforementioned book through curator Natalie Knight, as part of the Spiegel / Stein-Lessing Wing of the l'Afrique exhibtion at Museum Africa, Newtown, Johannesburg.

Ref: GB/12486











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