September 2, 2012
Black to green to gone: in the (perpetual) colony
No consideration of the tattoo as a literary form—or, conversely, of literary forms as tattoos—would be complete without a consideration of what the act of inscription implies. And I can […]
July 9, 2012
Black to green to gone: the tattoo as form and subject
To encode the past into one’s skin is both recursive and prophetic: recursive in that it makes the past a continual part of not just the present but the vehicle […]