Art Studio Elbe - Verband freischaffender Künstler.

  Author - Brian Hawkeswood.                                        Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung. “The body is a canvas,” they say, as if it were a blank wall in a forgotten street in Berlin , awaiting the first stroke of a spray can, some fleeting rebellion soon covered over by the next, until all one sees is palimpsest . But skin is not wall. Skin breathes, bruises, ages. It carries the living history of a person, involuntarily and in silence. To mark it permanently—willingly—is to commit an act of astonishing intimacy and irreversibility. I have often found myself, in trams and summer beer gardens, distracted by a forearm, a calf, a neck, where ink coils and stutters like a badly remembered story. The tattooed flesh of Germans—so many and so willingly etched—seems to me at times an attempt to attach permanence to a self grown otherwise transient. And yet, how s...