"It is our largest organ. It covers every inch of our body, protecting it from hit and illness. Sometimes it inflates pain and agony, other times it can be the source of great pleasure. Skin has been playing a major roll in the history of human culture. People go to war to keep their skin color more popular than others. Skin both reflects and affects our emotions. Obsessed with age-related changes in their skin, we pay billions to have every last one of our wrinkles vanished with plastic surgeries. Skin decoration forms such as partial or full body tattoos, body piercing and body painting have been means of self-expression long before we adopted them as pop-culture items. Modern interpretations of body art involve the exploration of skin as a a living canvas with its own unique physical dimensions, attributes and limits. Following is a brief review of 7 unusual contemporaneity body artists focusing on the human skin."
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7 Unusual Skin Artists
