The human body, the skin, serves in Anika Hochstenbach’s (2000) paintings as a landscape in which stories unfold. Although the body carries us, our relationship with it goes far beyond that. It is not merely skin that we inhabit; it shapes how we feel, how we move through the world, and how we perceive ourselves. By capturing different bodily experiences on paper or canvas, Anika searches for moments of comfort, alienation, and acceptance. These take shape through other bodies, elements of nature, or atmospheres of domesticity. Her act of depiction is driven by a desire to truly step into another’s skin. With her brush, Anika paints by feeling her way across the surface of the body, in search of the multitude of details that dwell within it.