Here's "Glad Tidings from the Inner Eye" a meditation on self knowledge. Leafing through my sketchbook - the place where most of my ideas go to die - I've found a couple of inspirations for the next tattoo.
I have some close up experience with skin art - my brother is just about completely paved over with tattoos. I know that they are time consuming, painful and expensive and although each individual tattoo is a story unto itself, it's rare that someone has an overall plan ahead of time.
Like a diary, body art usually evolves over a lifetime and each separate element tells it's own story. I want to add these element to the shirts in a way that preserves each individual story.
The trick is going to be organizing these on the shirts in a cohesive manner but lack of cohesion may be part of the story.
Whose life rolled out just the way they planned it?
2 comments:
Some of us never had a plan for our lives. At least we can't be disappointed!
Again I love the title and it seems that tattoos interest you .. I did a series of photos once about tattoos and the best part of doing that was interviewing the people I photographed. I asked about the meaning of the tats that they had and when did they get it. One young man in particular struck me with all of his. I asked which is the first one you got? He pointed to one I can't remember what it was but I remember his words. "I gave it to myself with a needle and bic pen" and he went on to say "the rest came from people I've met along the way" and I guess for me at this moment I see a connection in some way between tattoos that are permanent visual journals of a persons life to that of stitching only ours don't go with us every where we go and end up in a draw or a bag or on a quilt .. :) Thanks for the memory of tattoos.. :)
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