On the 15th of August 2010 I cut myself deeply into the fatty skin under my right thumb with a bread slicer. It was bleeding very strongly, I felt sick, lost control over my legs and fainted. At the ambulance the wound was sutured with seven stitches. This incident showed me in a frightening and fascinating way how alien the inner of my body is to me; the gaze into the gash under the surface of my skin was scary and repellent. The external integrity of my hand had been destroyed; my hand became a foreign body, bound to my perception and me only by the stabbing pain. This experience was one of the motivations for this project in which I want to explore the body and its appearence and potential.