Comments on: Written on the Body: The Art of Tattoo Storytelling

By: Harvey Danger | Contrariwise - Literary Ink

Harvey Danger | Contrariwise - Literary Ink — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:01:40 +0000

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By: valya1

valya1 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:03:42 +0000

Wow, I would but that was over 10 years ago. I know have some things saved, but they’re in storage somewhere.

By: jdimos

jdimos — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:05:45 +0000

Hey Valya,

It is a fascinating subject. Jenn and I are what you might call “addicted” to body art and ink. There’s some awesome work done on the subject, too. Take Ray Bradbury’s classic The Illustrated Man, for example. Or even Moby Dick, right?

Fortunate for you that you had the opportunity to engage a classroom about body literature. Feel free to post any thoughts or even the final self-portraits if you’d like. I know Jenn and I would love to see them.

Thanks again, Valya.

-Justin

By: valya1

valya1 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:23:00 +0000

Nice post. I too am fascinated in the body as blank page.

I once taught a class at the School of the Art Institute called Figure Writing. It was all about the ways that different literary works wrote about the body, and it was a blast to teach, culminating in the final project…a self portrait in words.