00:00Hi, I'm Dominic Jones, the Chief Executive of the Mary Rose Trust.
00:05It's fantastic to be here today to celebrate World Sight Loss Day, and also the day before
00:11the 42nd anniversary of the raising of the Mary Rose.
00:14Clark Reynolds has just done a project with the Mary Rose where he's done an amazing Braille
00:19world search, which is fantastic, but also what I'm really excited about is it's the
00:24first ever speed touch Braille door sign in a museum in the world ever.
00:31World exclusive.
00:32So there are lots of Braille signs in museums, often high up, but this is the world first
00:37Braille speed touch sign, and it's incredible.
00:40We've wanted to work for Clark for a long time, and now here we are with a world first.
00:45What does it mean to be the first to have the Braille within the Mary Rose?
00:50Since 1979, when the Mary Rose Trust was formed, we've always been about inclusivity
00:56and being for everyone, so it means so much to have the world's first Braille speed touch
01:02door sign on our toilets.
01:04The Mary Rose is for everyone, and we love this.
01:07Hi, my name's Clark Reynolds, and we're at the Mary Rose on World Sight Loss Day, launching
01:12another Braille world search, but most importantly, the first of its kind, large Braille toilet signs.
01:19Tell me what this means to you, Clark.
01:21It means a whole lot.
01:22I'm an impulsive lad.
01:23I do a big project in my home city, the stone show from my studio.
01:28It means so much to me, but more importantly, it's to work with the community, the visual
01:32ped children, all the different abilities to make this come together, and you saw the
01:37turnout today.
01:38It makes everyone feel like a child again, and that's what art is about.
01:41And tell me a little bit about the glasses that you're wearing.
01:44All these glasses, so a company has come all the way down from Edinburgh and Reading to
01:49give me these first ever AI glasses.
01:51I'm going to be an ambassador for them, but the idea is we're going to grow these glasses
01:55right at the start of it, the Edinburgh start of it, and the idea is they're going to give
01:59me like an AI working, so if I said to you, what do you look like, it would tell me, but
02:05it would tell me more information it gets, more detail I'm going to give it, so it's
02:09going to grow with me, and it's so exciting.
02:11They don't look like AI, they don't look just like some robot, they literally look like
02:16quite snazzy pittaget.
02:17Brilliant.
02:18So tell me about the people that were involved in the project here.
02:21Oh, so we had Craneswater Junior School, and they've got a group of visual ped children
02:25called the Meteorites.
02:26I worked with them a few times.
02:28We had the Mary Rose School, and with all different abilities, non-verbal, wheelchairs,
02:34the wide spectrum, that's what it is.
02:36It's about art, it's for everyone.
02:38And the staff, you know how hard it is to get adults to paint, but the staff came in
02:43all dressed up, and they were painting, some of them spent 40 minutes to an hour painting
02:48their own tile.
02:49It was amazing, and that's what art is about.
02:51It's about, not just for me, it's for everyone, and yeah, it's great.
02:56You can see the exuberance in my speech.
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