Sue Grass is a recent graduate of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Primarily a painter, she is interested in the edge between abstraction and reality, particularly in an urban or industrial context.

Experience Making This Piece:
Using the tactile vinyl sheets was very interesting, and I also felt that the medium suited my subject matter. The range of colours is quite good, and the whole concept of Tactile Colour to benefit blind people is fantastic.

Tactile Colour Used for the BRIDGE: smooth white, fine gritty blue, very fine gritty grey, hard wavy brown, very slightly bumpy old tan, rough gritty green.

Tactile Description:
This is an abstracted view of two side-by-side buildings with smokestacks. One building has a propeller mounted in a doorway. Starting in the top left-hand side of the picture is a tufty purple square representing the sky over the first building. In the lower center of the purple patch is a raised soft rubbery red smokestack. Below that is the first building in a very slightly bumpy tan colour. Beside that building is a larger gridded black building. It also has a raised soft rubbery red smokestack, but the sky over this building is fine gritty blue in colour. This gridded black building has a doorway slightly to the right of center marked in very slightly bumpy tan coloured strips, and the doorway contains a propeller shape in smooth white. The foreground of this picture is rough gritty green to represent shrubbery.

Tactile Colour Used for the SMOKESTACKS and PROPPELER: Old tuffty purple, fine gritty blue, soft rubbery red, very slightly bumpy old tan, gridded black, rough gritty green, smooth white

Tactile Description:
This is an abstracted view of the underside of a bridge. Starting at the top left-hand side of the image, you notice vertical raised white sections that represent the pillars of the bridge that are closest to you. In the background is the curving fine gritty blue of the bridge. Its outer edge sweeps down near the center of the picture, and the smaller section of the blue bridge goes out to the right edge of the picture. The top right hand side of the picture is sky, and is smooth white in colour. In between the white pillars, and also supporting the small bridge going off to the right are more pillars, represented with vertical strips of very fine gritty grey and hard wavy brown. In the lower third of the picture, there is rough gritty green grass behind the pillars, and also a very slightly bumpy tan horizontal strip that represents a road going under the bridge.

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