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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento Vol. 9, Nº 17| NOV 2024 | Open Topic. Deadline for full manuscript submission: July 31, 2024. 

Walking graphics: The tattoo as a Story and the Body as a Book

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Abstract

The present text follows the tradition of thinkers who place the body as problematic in the aesthetic field and force us to concentrate on its different dimensions and manifestations, where corporeity implies experience of doing as well as feeling and thinking. Under this perspective we propose to approach the potentialities of the tattoo as a story with which we represent our interiority graphically on our same surface, in order to establish analogies with the concept of editing. This kind of living graphic will be analyzed through a phenomenological approach of the designed bodies, which is directed to establish relationships between the drawn flesh and the edition of a book, in order to enable poetically the idea of body as a book, where meaning and significant are part of the same tissue, where the story of lived experience offers a kind of presence on the skin.

Keywords:

Body, design, living graphics, tattoo