Ritual Body Art by Charles Arnold

ISBN 0-919-345-74-3 Paint binds and separates, defining the pairs of opposites: sacred-profane, male-female, sick-well, good-bad, high-low, living-dead. Paint sets human beings apart from nature, while at the same time putting them in touch with natural forces apprehended but dimly understood ... Finally, paint communicates on the outer skin something of inner self. It is a self enlargement, idealized, enhanced. And the soul rejoices and is content.