Through the hashtag #dermatographia, Vanessa and I met on Instagram. She makes really cool drawings on her skin, so I asked to feature her on Skin Tome. Vanessa is a young artist using her skin as inspiration. Her current project is combining and comparing the textures of dermatographia with clouds. This is interesting considering how
Category: Interviews
It is my pleasure to introduce Rich S, fellow Skin Writer. Rich and I met through Facebook (he runs the Facebook page I'm A Skin Writer, I Have Dermatographism) back in 2011, and have kept in touch ever since. Rich lives near New York City, so we met last week for lunch in Lower Manhattan.
"increasing daylight, warming temperatures, the flowers begin to bloom... some track the beginning of seasons by recording animals' behavior and the way plants grow... for me, it's the look and feel of my hands what reminds me that spring is here." -Ana Myers Ana introduced herself to me recently on email, after she read the
Dr. James Hamblin wrote this awesome article about Skin Tome and dermatographia in The Atlantic: “They knew that their skin did something weird, but they didn’t know what it was.” People who reach out to Ariana Page Russell, an artist in Brooklyn, often see their own skin in hers. Many have epidermal reactions like Russell’s,
Emely Martinez spent years hiding her condition, called alopeica, with strangers, friends, and even family. Then she came to realize that she is beautiful because of who she is on the inside, not because of her external appearance. With this realization, she stopped wearing the wigs and hats that were covering up her bald head.
“I’m very interested in the historical periods of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment when artistic and scientific interest turned toward the understanding and exploring of our physical being and the nature of its malaise. It seems to me that at a personal level we all have to retrace this path of discovery about the physical,
