Tattoo Sketchbook
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Over the course of envisioning and executing two editions of Tattoo, Hall imagined and re-imagined its physical form and materiality. She explored traditional and new forms of typography, type production, paper making, printing, and book binding before settling on a final design. The text likewise went through multiple revisions. Her sketchbook from Haystack during Summer 1998 records her early thoughts on her own tattoos: “I have more dots – on the other side of my neck, above the scar on my breast, on my hips, my groin. Blue reminders; markers for healing…or for danger. I risk the danger. Choose living.”