skin: story

Image: Shelley Jackson: still from Skin, tattoo | 2003

Shelley Jackson: the skin project...

• by the skin of my teeth
• it gets under my skin
• s/he is so thick-skinned
• beauty is only skin-deep
• I am skint (skinned)
• hide bound
• scratch my skin
• s/he is so skinny
• save one's skin
• s/he was skinned alive
• it's no skin off my nose / back
• the skin worms
• the skull beneath the skin
• the heart never knows the colour of the skin
• we went skinny dipping
• there's more than one way to skin a cat
• I jumped out of my skin
• s/he makes my skin crawl
• I am soaked to the skin
• it'll save your bacon (skin)

the april blankets

peace be with you...

G O D S P E L L
Jersey Arts Centre youtheatre
St. Helier Methodist Centre
7-9 July 2011

Musical Director: Tim Cumper
Choreographer: Christophe Chateau
Director: Daniel Austin

A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew

Conceived and Originally Directed by:
John-Michael Tebelak
Music and New Lyrics by:
Stephen Schwartz
Originally Produced on the New York Stage by:
Edgar Lansbury, Stuart Duncan, Joseph Beruh

Photography: Bruce Liron

16 days: Blanket # 105: 200 horses

WHITE FEATHER | 1955

A Leonard Goldstein Presentation

Screenplay: Delmer Daves & Leo Townsend

From a story by: John Prebble

Director: Robert Webb

Producer: Robert L. Jacks

With: Robert Wagner | John Lund | Debra Paget | Jeffrey Hunter

Blanket # 105:

welcome | a river | our side of the river | each arrow has a meaning | courage | dignity | war | treaty | who are you called? | how is she called? | Appearing Day | a rich present | it does not fit our hand | pine tree soap | can i kiss you thank | we must protect you | we will say good night now | maize | 200 horses | welcome to our council | it is our wish | i have listened to all that has been said | i have thought long thoughts | the buffalo has gone | the eating is ended | all has been said | my lodge | words have too many shadows | people will die as people | do not speak with one tongue and one heart

49 days: Blanket # 72: games

FAIR GAME

Director: Doug Liman

Screenplay: Jez Butterworth

With: Naomi Watts and Sean Penn

Blanket # 72:

• Sean Penn
• Naomi Watts
• Doug Liman
• Jez Butterworth

60 days: Blanket # 61: medicine words

Bear Grass (Xerophyllum tenax)

Native to Western US | grows from just above sea level to alpine | resembles a bunchgrass | flowering creamy white | up to 5 feet tall | Native basket and hat making material | both decorative and watertight | used in Native American medicine | the pounded roots poulticed on wounds to stop bleeding and thus heal | perennial | fire-resistant | hardy to -20° F | prefers rocky fast-draining soil | part shade to full sun | open coniferous forest habitat

Blanket # 61:

• words are magical, powerful, invisible
• words are a way of knowing self
  
• words are a way of knowing the wider world
  
• words are medicine

61 days: Blanket # 60: sacred

"Like many people, Native Americans believe that cemeteries are sacred ground... Native Americans abhor the destruction of burial sites and the exhumation of human remains, for any reason."

Native Universe: Voices of Indian America

Editors: Gerald McMaster and Clifford E. Trafzer

(NGS/NMAI: Washington D.C., 2004)

Blanket # 60:

• sacred burial ground
• the body
• the bones