Constraint n°049
The Map of Your Scars
Each scar has a story. Draw them. Tell them.
Locate each scar on your body. Draw a map of your skin with their location. For each, write the story... three sentences maximum. What you get is an involuntary autobiography.
Instructions
- Settle down. Examine your body... hands, arms, knees, face, feet. Look for each mark, each scar, even the smallest ones, even those you had forgotten.
- On a sheet of paper, draw a simple silhouette of yourself... no need to know how to draw. Place each scar in the right place with a number.
- For each number, write the story in three sentences maximum. No literature... the facts, the age you were, and a detail you've never told anyone.
- If you can't remember the origin of a scar, invent it. The invented story is part of the work as much as the real one.
- Photograph the map and texts. Upload to the site. You can hide what seems too intimate to you... the blanks also tell something.
Variants
Do it in pairs. Exchange your maps. Tell your scars to each other.
Add invisible scars... those that left no mark on the skin but that you remember physically.
Inspired by
Bob Flanagan →
Sensitivity :
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Hashtag : #ouviepo_carteCicatrices
Take the challenge!
Take on this constraint and leave your trace.