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SKIN GEOGRAPHY. EARTH ́S WRITING
Authors: Carolina Mejía González

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The text recounts some significant occurrences, printed on the traveling suitcases: a variety of landscapes, dents, unknown places. It is a story about the aesthetic gestures that the traveler collects, carries and brings, in line with the four geographies of José Luis Pardo's "Geopoetics": writing of the earth, inscription on the earth, writing on the earth and description of the earth, weaved with the skin as a place of common sense, a concept built from Michel Serres. These occurrences constitute the life of the traveler, of the one who has to deal with or worry about a suitcase, carrying his luggage. Occurrences that, printed, configure the pages or hidden images and that when read-ing them will bring back memories and affective premoni-tions —sensitive matters of the emotional being that we are—, when we have traveled and arrived home