These are punched into the back of the canvas and leave a system of coded dots. The canvas has also been crushed and folded. The resultant wrinkled patterns have been augmented with trompe l'oeil rendering. In addition to works involving Braille, Mahdavi has rendered the Spanish word for water, Agua , and a poem by Garcia Lorca. That's the main model of what I think painting is.
Language is only public.
The chance of getting anything personal across is highly unlikely. Struck by the casual manner in which most visitors experience works in a museum he was motivated to learn and incorporate Braille as a way of experiencing art for a non sighted person. The Braille text is first punched into the canvas describing the content and appearance of the final work. When I go to the Louvre, I usually look at ten or fifteen paintings over a two hour period. I go to see my buddies.