In my work entitled Inverted Braille (2017) I have created A1 sheets which contain the background information of the workers which have had a hand in creating the Alcolin cold wood glue, with which the sheets have been made. Yet instead of the dots being raised, I have conducted the artworks in a way that the dots are indented into the sheets of glue instead of protruding outward. I utilised the concept of inverted braille as a metaphor for what we can and cannot see in materials which exist within our daily lives as well as our artistic practice. By inverting the braille, it makes the information inaccessible. This inaccessibility is furthered by the constant reproduction of the same workers narrative and the same sheet. The first sheet made contains the full story of that particular worker. After this sheet dries, I pull it off the mold, resulting in the wood glue haphazardly removing parts of the braille that describes the workers story, which was present in the original mold. I then pour again, resulting in a sheet, which only contains part of the story. I do this until there is nothing left but the very material that was in part created by the person previously described. This irony illustrates that through constant reproduction, one forgets that even if one cannot see the person who made this material, their influence still affects the outcome of this artwork, even if it is not visually evident.

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