“Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.” MayPersonsStatesRealityIndividualLostBlackPossibilityCreatingSkinsDefinitionsVariousEndlessNarrativeFlatsPensDiverseInkSpectrumGeographyStaticBlacknessSubjectivityTerrainPortrayingPortraitureSpecificityTopographyBallpoint Pens Author:Toyin Odutola
“I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my knee, but the doctors were able to stitch it all back together. Luckily I didn't hurt my shoulder but I'm now at the point where the only thing on my body which isn't hurting is my bad shoulder.” BodyHandsAbleTogetherLostLeftBitsSidesHurtCuttingDoctorsSkinsShouldersKneesBack TogetherStitches Author:Jens Voigt
“Without that thick skin and a clear vision of what it is you want to do, what it is you know you want to do, it can be really easy to get out here and get lost and swept away in whatever is going on. You really have to be steadfast in the mind for sure.” KnowsWantMindLostEasyVisionClearSkinsThickEasy To GetSteadfastSwept AwayThick SkinClear Vision Author:Stephen Boss
“I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk into the world of words; I believe that writers ought to be able to slip under the skins of both men and women. Only then will the writing and the characters have credibility and strength.” ThinkingMenWorldNeedsWritingBelieveCharacterAbleLostI BelieveWalksOughtMen And WomenSkinsGenderSlipsCredibilityCategorization Author:Anita Nair
“What came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there was never a beforethis nor will there be an afternow. I am accepting. This is not a thing to be solved, or conquered, or destroyed. It is. I am. We are. We conjugate together in darkness, plotting against each other, the Labyrinth to eat me and I to eat it, each to swallow the hard, black opium of the other. We hold orange petals beneath our tongues and seethe. It has always been so. It grinds against me and I bite into its skin.” ThinkingHardTogetherLostBlackAcceptingDarknessSkinsTongueTeethDestroyedBitesMilkOrangeGrindLabyrinthPetalsOpium Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.” TryingYearsEnoughLightLostKissingSkinsLipsCurrentsElectricBrooklynSpitEnough TimeElectric CurrentLost Years Book:Where She Went Source: Where She Went
“I might have lost some skin, but I got kissed by a beautiful woman who was happy to see me. I gotta say that’s pretty epic in my book. Definitely not a worst-case day here.” – Sundown” BookMightBeautifulLostCasesWorstSkinsEpicBeautiful Women Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him.” WorldLostFieldsTearsArmsPromiseSkinsHotCuresHot Days Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem