By frag_editorial While the books burn, I trace the lines of my hand. The body persists where the book is destroyed. Paul Valéry once wrote: “The deepest thing in man is the skin.” By marking my palm, I turn the body into a living book—fragile yet resistant, carrying memory beyond the flames. What happens when everthing is on fire? The skin is the boundary between our inner self and the outer world; if it is a frontier, it can also become a bridge of communication. What kind of dialogue takes place between the skin and the fire? This is a projection—a projection of possibility: in its connection to a world in ruins, what knowledge can the skin reveal to us?
About the maker – Tomás Estrada Hevia
PhD student specializing in Medieval Literature at the University of Massachusetts. From Spain.