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The Key to Memory: Mark it out

Sarah Bentley explores what a papier-mâché figure from Japan can tell us about how and why we remember.

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Written on my body

Scars mean David Jesudason has never enjoyed seeing his reflection. Recounting the stories behind the marks on his face and body, he finds the only one that symbolises hope and happiness.

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My body, my hair

To depilate or not to depilate? Farah Esset and Eden Rickson share a collection of personal pictures and stories that explore the intimate interplay between body hair and identity.

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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming

Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.

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  • A snake, slender and green in colour, with a darker zig-zag marking along its back and bands of pink running along each side of the upper body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A snake, brown in colour, with broken black cross-banded markings on the lower body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A snake, slender and brown in colour, with dark narrow cross-banded markings on the upper body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A snake, green in colour with white markings the upper body: includes a detail of the tail's underside. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A snake, dark brown in colour with yellow markings on either side of the eyes: two figures, showing the head, and the lower part of the body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A snake, small and slender, pale in colour, with oval-shaped brown markings running along its back (which become gradually paler towards the lower body and tail). Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • Proportions of the human body: six figures showing the face, hand, leg and entire body, with proportions marked. Lithograph by Battistelli after C. Squanquerillo, ca. 1840.
  • Acupuncture points (?) marked on the head, arm and body of a figure: five figures. Coloured lithograph, 1863.
  • Proportions of the human body: annotated illustrations of the human face, body, hands and feet, with proportions marked. Pen and ink, probably copied from a printed book, 1830/1850.
  • Joints of the human body: annotated illustrations, with proportions marked. Pen and ink, probably copied from a printed book, 1830/1850.
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