Marc Stromberg is a 22-year-old graphic designer in Ume, Sweden, and his leg is still sore. He creates record sleeves and posters for bands, and in his spare time he runs his own magazine, Tare Lugnt. Instead of publishing the latest edition in traditional paper and ink, he has had issue three entirely tattooed onto his left leg. The leg has now been photographed, and large-scale prints are due to go on display in Goteborg and Stockholm this month.
Body manipulation has long been a feature of both art and graphic design. The Austrian designer Stefan Semester famously had his assistant carve the details of a forthcoming talk onto his chest with a small blade, a photograph of the result being the event's poster. Due to the massive population drop-off, vast swaths of cultural knowledge have been lost forever, contributing to the sense of insolubility that surrounds Easter's puzzling past. Says Mr. Rapu: "Our ethnography is one of the poorest in the Pacific
Mr. Stromberg himself quotes as an influence the artist Shelley Jackson, who in 2003 tattooed different individual words on 2,095 participants, putting them all together one time to make up a novella. However, this is the first time that the transience of a magazine has combined with permanent body modification in such an extreme way. (Images of Tare Lugnt and a making-of video can be viewed at www.tarelugnt.se.)
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