Please meet artist Ariana Page Russell.
"My skin is very sensitive and I blush easily. I have dermatographia, a condition in which one’s immune system exhibits hypersensitivity, via skin, that releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the skin’s surface is lightly scratched. This allows me to painlessly draw patterns and words on my skin, which I then photograph. Even though I can direct this ephemeral response by drawing on it, the reaction is involuntary, much like the uncontrollable nature of a blush."
See some more of her skin work here.
3 comments:
Wow. "Index" is crazy. Making the best of the skin issues. Love it.
I know, that one is amazing!
wow. at first I was ewwww....but it's kinda neat.
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