The common denominator for the three part piece is that they are switching places between people who are blind and the ones that can see. The "seeing" are becoming the one to need things to be made accessible to them, and the blind now get to have an advantage over them, because they are able to read Braille. All three pieces use paradox for raising the awareness to the "other" side.

 

Do Not Touch

Written in braille on paper, this request begs to be ignored and that's exactly the paradox. You can only find out what you are not allowed to do, after you have already done it.

Technique: Braille on paper

 

Antiphrasis (Aramaic: Sagi Nahor)

A rhetorical device used to express irony, stating the opposite to what is really meant.

Sagi Nahor was the nickname given to a blind Rabbi, and the meaning of the name is “full of light”.

This is used as a euphemism, so to speak, to disguise the negative intended meaning.

Reversed roles - the seeing person cannot see what is “visible” to a blind person.

Technique: Braille on paper. 

 

The Writing Is On the Wall 

The signs are there, predicting what is about to happen, warning that a disaster is lurking, unless one takes action to prevent it .This saying first appears in the Old Testament, Daniel 5:5, regarding a writing which miraculously appeared on the wall of the Babylonian King's palace. But it's hard to read the writing on the wall in this case, only a blind person is able to "see" it (like the blind prophet, Tiresias, in Greek Mythology

Technique: Braille on paper