A project by Gideon Boomer, “Touch My Belly” started in 1999. The concept is a simple one: Convince stranger(s) to touch my belly while being photographed. There are only two rules for the project: I can’t know the person touching my belly and I can’t pay anyone for doing it. Gotta be a stranger who will do it for free. The real art of the thing is in the pitch. “Touch My Belly” is updated as long as I don’t get BIT! Enjoy.
Seems like a cool idea until I read this:
I got bit in October 2006. I got bit hard. I’ve been bit hard before, on my belly no less, and its been fine. This one broke the skin (think hot-dog-casing snap), and my pain-badassedness instantly gave way to my attachment to hygiene.
God that made me wince.
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