Becoming part of a book

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I'm creating a time schedule with an artist friend to paint calligraphy and ideograms on my skin. Nothing permanent. I just want to know what it feels like to be written on with another writing instrument (ballpoints tend to dig and tickle)... and being a living chapbook.

My questions to you are about Shelley Jackson's project: Shelley Jackson invites participants in a new work entitled "Skin."
http://ineradicablestain.com/skin.html

Would you? Have you? I wonder what it's like to be a part of a story - carrying a word with you always?

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I would, but only if she or her publisher is footing the bill.

That's fucking pretentious, though.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ditto, homestar.

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Would I? Given the lack of control involved, hell no. It's taken me years to decide on piercings, and I can take those out. I do sort of like the idea, but I think that maybe a shorter story would've been better so that if any words decide to get together, there's a greater chance of it being meaningful(?). But then again, it's obvious she's not shooting for convenience with this.
In a very rough sense, this reminds me of another artist who tends to work in disadvantaged countries, and has people perform acts of various kinds for money, as a statement about the poverty. One such was having a continuous line tattooed across the backs of several men. The stunts can easily be read as degrading, and I'm not really sure where I stand on the matter.

― Su (BoredInsomniac), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Heck Yeah! I think it sounds like a lot of fun. If I was only twenty again!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going on 40 pepek and I'm thinking of having a tattoo of a word from one of my favorite novels inked...but which book?! Thankfully, I've 3 full years to decide before the 4-0 bday ;)

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I definitely would, but only if I could read the story first. I would need to check out all the possibly embarrassing words to see if I could live with them or not. I kind of like the randomness of it.

― Elan Morgan, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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