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Painting the skin is painting everything. The dermis is, symbolically and literally, where life originates. From a literal perspective, the embryo is gestated from the ectoderm, the germ layer of embryonic development that gives rise to the central and peripheral nervous system. Skin and brain are the obverse and reverse sides of the same coin. As the philosopher Paul Valéry points out: "Marrow, brain, everything you need to feel, to suffer, to think..., to be profound: it all comes from there.... They are inventions of the skin!”

On a symbolic level, the skin resonates as an echo of the …