hi, i'm tina rena. ra. i'm a painter. at 1st glance, the paintings of this nairobi based artists seem to be colorful and bright, but they have a hidden secret. my paintings have messages in them. and so as you go to the painting, there'll be messages all written in braille. and then they can follow the type of message i'm trying to say with the painting for both the visually completely blind and also partially blind. for winnie on god, she who lost her eyesight in 2010 t never, never us works are really worth a 1000 words. there's a buildings there and the windows it's the building is retained in grade and the ocean to is written in braille and the fish and the trees and the people moving that the words written in grade. so that gives me an understanding of what's, ah, is there is the message through their picture. braille is the system of res dogs, that can be read with the fingers. since it's development in france by louis braille in the 19th century, it is become both an effective means of communication and essential f