Artist Creates Sexy Lingerie Pictures for the Blind

To many of us, a picture of lacy lingerie is no big deal. But if you're blind, an image of sexy panties may be a lot more thrilling -- perhaps even downright touching.

For the past year, Toronto artist Lisa J. Murphy has carried out a quirky creative vision: to create racy, arguably pornographic, art for the visually impaired.

Murphy made headlines earlier this year when she released a handmade book titled "Tactile Mind," featuring raised, 3-D images of naked people and private parts sculpted onto thermoform plastic pages -- the same material used for Braille.

Her goal, as reported by several news outlets, was to give the blind a chance to "feel" their way through the human form, since adult films and magazines have never really catered to the visually impaired.

Several months later, Murphy is up to her old ways again.

She told AOL News that she's created a new series of sexy images for the blind through a project dubbed "Tactile Atelier Bookmark," which is literally a placeholder between her first book and her next one.

To tide people over, Murphy said she's molded a small series of touchable, 3-D images featuring models wearing sexy lingerie onto clay and thermoform plastic pages.

The vacuum-pressed images -- designed once again with the visually impaired in mind -- include a pair of women's feet in calf-length, high-heeled shoes, a female's butt boasting a pair of frilly thong panties, a woman's torso sporting a sexy bra and a woman wearing a pair of sheer bikini-style underwear.

For further clarification, Murphy said each image includes an accompanying description in grade-one American English Braille, ensuring that whoever is enjoying the art will really get a feel for it.

"I used the same process for this as I did before for my book," Murphy said. "I took photographs of my friends in lingerie, blew up the images and hand-sculpted them into clay. Then I made thermoform copies. I ran the plastic myself through my thermoform machine at home, so each one took awhile to make."

Murphy said the biggest challenge throughout the thermoforming process was learning to be patient with her temperamental materials.

"The plastic is delicate and wrinkles easily, so I really had to take my time on each image. The thermoform machine overheats, so I had to watch out for that, too."

Out of all four risque art pieces, Murphy said the toughest one to mold was the derriere with the lacy thong because she wanted to make sure that it felt like a female's behind, not a man's butt.

"The butt was really hard to sculpt. I wanted to get it nice and even and give it a feminine softness so it would actually feel like a woman's butt. It took me days to sculpt all the curves right, but I'm told it does feel like a woman's butt in a G-string," she said proudly.

Murphy, who spent several years as a volunteer for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, said her work is meant to make people think about human sexuality while also helping the visually impaired enjoy the same pleasures of the flesh a sighted person might enjoy.

"I've had both sighted and blind friends check out my art, and the feedback has been pretty positive. Sighted people like it for the art, and for the sightless, it really is eye-opening. I've had blind people tell me they enjoyed the images solely for the fashion. One person was floored by the high heels and couldn't believe those shoes even existed. Another was intrigued by the underwire in the bra image," Murphy explained.

Though some may see her erotic art form as merely "porn for the blind," Murphy believes it's much deeper than that.

She sees her handmade art as a unique sensory experience and will continue making it as long as her thermoform machine doesn't act up and her friends are willing to anonymously pose for the initial photographs.

Murphy said she'll begin working on her next full-length project soon, but for now, her "Bookmark" set of four lingerie images is available online for $100 (Canadian).

Now, if only the Victoria's Secret catalog were touchable.

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