Discover “On the skin, stories”, our summer series on tattoos, by the Varoise writer Héloïse Guay de Bellissen

I am on the terrace of a coffee at Brusc. Similarly, I like to write in bars and especially by the water. Therefore, Besides me, sits a young woman, beautiful and smiling, decorated with very varied tattoos. Meanwhile, At a glance. Moreover, I guess one in her neck, several on his arms and belly, as well as on his hands.

I can’t help but look at it because the tattoo has that wonderful is that he knows how to. In addition, hang the look. Meanwhile, It is no longer possible to write anything now because my curiosity is stung. In addition, I suddenly think back to this Princess of Altai, a tattooed mummy found in 1993, near the border of China. Nevertheless, She is two thousand five hundred years old. In addition, and she too wore tattoos, one on her arm, another discover “on skin, stories”, our on her wrist and her thumb. Furthermore, So, I wonder if the woman seated next to me, the Princess of Altai, and I have things in common? In addition, No doubt yes, and probably also that we would hear each other all three, accomplices in a tea room.

The Grail at the bottom of a box – Discover "on skin, stories", our

It is not a tattoo that we are used to seeing. Furthermore, on the arm she has cups of tea stacked on each other. Meanwhile, Immediately I think of Alice in the Wonderland of Lewis Carroll, and the scene of the hat. Nevertheless, Are they representing moments that she lived with friends? Moreover, A kind of ceremonial tattoo? Is it English? Did she do it at tea time? I close my computer and I engage the conversation.

This tattoo, she says, talks about her work. She is the founder of an association. the discover “on skin, stories”, our BRIC with wonderful Brac at Six-Fours, where she recycles everything, clothes, furniture, dishes, hence “porcelain cups”, she told me.

The first click, give a chance, a second life.

Lydie had it one morning eight years ago. she had enough of this capitalist world eager for permanent consumption and new. Suddenly, she embarks on the recycling of objects which we no longer want, in particular the dishes. She has always had a particular tenderness for forgotten objects. especially since sometimes what is brought to her comes from a separation, a death or a change of life. “All tell a story and are ready to experience others,” she told me.

One day, a man places a cardboard full of old dishes on his association. So she unplods it. She finds a whole service of plates, and wonders if it was a wedding gift? Had he served for long family meals? As well. discover “on skin, stories”, our he had not experienced anything, he had stayed in a closet all his life and was finally going to be able to serve. Then. at the bottom of the cardboard, wrapped in newspaper (Var-Matin, in addition, it does not invent), she discovers a porcelain cup, the same as that in which she drank the hot chocolates of her grandmother. The Grail.

An extension of his commitment. childhood – Discover "on skin, stories", our

Discover "on skin, stories", our

We have all experienced this, this moment of grace when an object brings us back to a memory, and it often happens in hangars.

Immediately she decides to keep her and bring her home. And now, every morning, she drinks her coffee in it. Because like tattooing, our everyday objects, especially those of childhood, are of the ritual order.

Second click, put on your skin what you think.

Two weeks ago, she brought in a tattoo artist in discover “on skin, stories”, our her hangar where she sells her objects. And on her arm, she was tattooed a series of cups, one on the other as ready to fall. Now. with this new tattoo, she claims that worn objects, ended child stories, reminiscences, have a second life in the skin. This tattoo is both an extension of his commitment and childhood. What is and what is no longer. By choosing both fragile and easily broken or thrown objects, it shows a restorative vision of the world. And by choosing her cups. she clearly says through her body that we can keep in her life things that seem obsolete and make an ecology of the sensitive.

Circular. emotional economy

If you too are like Lydie, a follower of a circular and emotional economy, if you like things that have experience, respondent, and who have things to tell us, visit these hangars. And don’t discover “on skin, stories”, our forget. the cups are like us, sometimes abandoned, alone, damaged, but ready to live new experiences and blow your ear, everything speaks when you listen.

If you want to go. meet Lydie’s tattoo and buy objects from another era that just ask to be part of ours, go to the BRIC Merveilleux (1). And there is even a tea room where you can buy the cup in which you are going to drink.

1. Zone Industrielle Les Playes, 50 rue de l’Avenir, 83140 Six-Fours-les beaches.

If you have a story to tell through your skin. you are from the region, send an email to: [email protected]