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
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Brent from the Netherlands asked me to help him out with a school project, and ended up sharing his own skin condition story too. My name is Brent Decremer and I’m 17 years old. I’m in my last year of high school (fine arts). During the year we have an assignment called GIP. My subject
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
It is my pleasure to introduce Rich S, fellow Skin Writer. Rich and I met through Facebook (he runs the Facebook page I'm A Skin Writer, I Have Dermatographism) back in 2011, and have kept in touch ever since. Rich lives near New York City, so we met last week for lunch in Lower Manhattan.
"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,
