Thread: The Skin Project

Thought you people would get a kick out of this. It's a 2095-word story published exclusively in tattoos, one word at a time, on the skin of volunteers.

Shelley Jackson's INERADICABLE STAIN : SKIN PROJECT

Very interesting, especially this part:

From this time on, participants will be known as "words". They are not understood as carriers or agents of the texts they bear, but as its embodiments. As a result, injuries to the printed texts, such as dermabrasion, laser surgery, tattoo cover work or the loss of body parts, will not be considered to alter the work. Only the death of words effaces them from the text. As words die the story will change; when the last word dies the story will also have died. The author will make every effort to attend the funerals of her words.

So it's like a living, breathing story. Nice.