Incorporated Mark: a skin-to-skin for twoIncorporated Mark: a skin-to-skin for two Incorporated Mark: a skin-to-skin for two extends the work of The Same Colombian: a a tête-à-tête for two (2012), by drawing Carlos Monroy’s and my bodies into further proximity with each other through creating a permanent marking on the body. During the creation of The Same Colombian: a a tête-à-tête for two, we discovered that we each have the same abdominal scar on the right side of their stomachs above the hip bone. Continuing to play with ideas of sameness and difference, our tattoos, black outlines of a full color icon representing the 2012 performance, and were partially filled in with two different red pixels on the artists’ bodies during this initial marking session. The choice of where to locate the marks was made by each artist for the other, engaging questions of power and agency over each other’s bodies. Every time The Same Colombian meet in physical space to create new works together, a pixel (symbolic and inked) is added to the design, attempting to further complete the incorporated image. This visualization of seeming incompleteness is a materialization of the desire to share sameness, and the impossibility, thanks to geographical and experiential distance, of becoming one another. [Tattooing completed by Farid Hadechini, MAR NEGRO ESTUDIO] |  Incorporated Mark: a skin-to-skin for two, initial tattoo. |  Scars. |