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Self-portrait as dust

I changed the vacumn cleaner bag in the garden yesterday, then brushed the filter.  There was quite a lot of dust lying on the path by the time I'd finished.  When I saw it later it occured to me that as dust consists largely of shed skin cells, and as I live on my own, then the dust lying there was in fact me.




"The percentage of the dust in your home that is actually dead skin cells is approximately 75% to 90%.

"30,000-40,000 skin cells fall off you per minute, and on average 8.8 pounds of dead skin cells fall off your body per year."

stats: about.com/skincare (not sure how reliable they are)