Recently there’s been a few awesome things in the news about dermatographia and Skin Tome. There’s been so much love coming from that exposure! Thank you everyone who has commented, emailed, and re-blogged. Our community is growing, and all of this exposure is helping shed light on dermatographia, so people know it exists and how
Tag: creativity
Through the hashtag #dermatographia, Vanessa and I met on Instagram. She makes really cool drawings on her skin, so I asked to feature her on Skin Tome. Vanessa is a young artist using her skin as inspiration. Her current project is combining and comparing the textures of dermatographia with clouds. This is interesting considering how
"increasing daylight, warming temperatures, the flowers begin to bloom... some track the beginning of seasons by recording animals' behavior and the way plants grow... for me, it's the look and feel of my hands what reminds me that spring is here." -Ana Myers Ana introduced herself to me recently on email, after she read the
Dr. James Hamblin wrote this awesome article about Skin Tome and dermatographia in The Atlantic: “They knew that their skin did something weird, but they didn’t know what it was.” People who reach out to Ariana Page Russell, an artist in Brooklyn, often see their own skin in hers. Many have epidermal reactions like Russell’s,
“I’m very interested in the historical periods of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment when artistic and scientific interest turned toward the understanding and exploring of our physical being and the nature of its malaise. It seems to me that at a personal level we all have to retrace this path of discovery about the physical,
“My strength is my vulnerability. It is the key with which I open and close space. It is my map through space.” “There is no knowledge without the body.” -Ernesto Pujol I was fortunate enough to meet Ernesto back in 2005 in Seattle. He was the juror for a show at Center on Contemporary Art
