Purple Isle, Maps on the skin

Maps on the skin

Purple Isle

Publisher
89books
Year
2025
ISBN
979-12-80423-94-8
Specifications
Softcover with dust jacket
15 x 18 cm
64 pages
47 polaroids
Digital print
Design by 89books

Meridians and parallels conceal secrets. They are lines as thin as ribbons, intertwining on your skin between light and shadow. Elastic taping, like a remedy, an embrace, wraps the body, offering relief and becoming a part of you as it travels along its contours. The intertwining of the body and consciousness, and the way our experience of the world is mediated through the skin, represents our first point of contact with the outside world.

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