An Exercise in Creative Writing
What clues might it reveal about your interests and enthusiasms, your sporting activities or mishaps, for example, what scars if any does your skin carry and what stories do they remind you of? In Skin we witness the ritual scarring of a black child by ‘a sangoma’ – a traditional ceremony among many southern African tribes – maybe you too have such marks of tradition and culture and here is an opportunity to discuss them if you wish. And what about tattoos? What other forms of ‘decoration’, if any, does your skin carry, or do you wish it carried?
