"Skin" by Troy's Work Table.
Sidewalk chalk wash, sidewalk chalk, chalk pastels, and charcoal pencil on 12" x 12" concrete board.
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"Sometimes I nerve-hover hand-sized square to square, nick-naming (and mind-mapping) every burn mark and blemish: starfish, Utah, Pee Dee River; Africa, amoeba, mole-mound, quail." and "daub each one with a cold cube of yellow butter" —from "Skin" by Atsuro Riley, as found in Romey's Order
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I played a bit loose and simple with the images from the poem, but I absolutely love what ended up on the chalk board.
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"Constellations," clockwise, starting with upper left (as imagined by Romey): rabbit foot/Florida; tepee/Fuji; starfish; Africa; general scar; anchor; amoeba.
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Skin as existential map. Skin as a field of constellations. Skin as a "suit" that reflects how we live, declares that we are alive.
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Scars as stories of life lived.
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I also imagined skin as a skillet. The cube of butter becomes a pat of butter gliding about on the griddle of the body.
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