Skin: A Mortal Work of Art
An artist, Shelley Jackson has put together a fairly novel project, Skin.
Skin is a short story of 2,095 words that will not be printed or produced anywhere but as tattoos on participants in the project. Each participant gets one word (they can pick where the tattoo goes on their body, but not the word) and only they will know the complete story.
I have to admit, I’m fairly curious what the story is. I don’t think I’ll get a tattoo just to find out, but maybe I can talk one of my tattooed friends into doing it. I think I know at least three good candidates. In the meantime, I’ll be limited to trying to piece it together with the help of flickr and Yahoo! Image Search.
