During my research into patterns, I stumbled into the Braille embossed paper, at artist’s friend in Milan. She showed me some Braille magazines, which she had subscribed to as a consequence of working with a blind person: she was struck, as I did, by the beauty of those white textured pages, almost a work of art in itself. I searched and found them in NY. While I originally meant to imprint the pattern onto some canvases, I then worked directly on it with various techniques: charcoal frottage, rubbing against charcoal sized paper, ink and white out.The Braille paper has the peculiarity of a rhythm pattern that is not regular and yet obviously, being a language with the equivalent of letters, has also elements of repetition and its aesthetic likeness to pixelation reminds also to the the alphabet of the digital image. The texture of the paper itself obviously refer to a language, a mysterious one we cannot decipher: it is the background of my action. Having language as a background turned out to be an interesting starting pointAnd what if there are black holes in the language, what if an action takes place before it? What if the world of materiality breaks into it, as the rubbings of threads do (frottage), or a fingerprint??