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13 March 2006

Shelley Jackson's Ineradicable Stain: a "mortal work of art"? A short fiction published exclusively in the form of tattoos on the skin of volunteers, one word at a time. →[More:]
Each participant in "Skin" must agree to have one word of the story tattooed upon his or her body. The text will be published nowhere else. Participants must accept the word they are given. Participants will be known as "words". The author will make every effort to attend the funerals of her words.

(Apologies if this is old news; I just learned of it.)

post by: amro at: 06:23 | 5 comments

I first read that as Shirley Jackson, as in The Lottery, etc. This reminds me of a story by Roald Dahl about a guy who has a masterpiece painting tattooed on his back and is eventually killed for it.

posted by omiewise 13 March | 06:44

[this is soooo cool]

A simple sans serif font like Futura...is also permissible, as is Courier

Accck! How could you do that to yourself?

posted by flopsy 13 March | 08:30

"Nowadays, people aren't interested in art that's not tattooed on fat guys."

posted by Eideteker 13 March | 09:08

One of my buddies in Cleveland participated in this.

posted by sciurus 13 March | 11:55

I can't remember which tattoo show (Miami Ink or Inked) had a woman on it getting a tattoo for the project.

I'd do it but I'm afraid of getting a lame word.

It was linked to at MeFi a while back.

posted by deborah 13 March | 13:58

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