Finding Empathy in the Confines of Our Skin
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Two billion cells make up the skin encasing our bodies, and 300 million of them are replaced every day. We need a sense of bodily integrity so much that if we lose a limb, we imagine it’s still there, itching and aching, and yet our skin, that exterior layer actually holding us together, is constantly dying off and renewing itself, sloughing off and repairing.
Image: Diana Schmertz, “Container of Time and Space (ll)” (detail, 2012), oil on wood, 6 in each (photo by Susan Silas)
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