Having a tattoo is not as taboo as it once was, millions of people worldwide have at least one tattoo, so trust me when I say I've seen A LOT of tattoos. This one in particular, worthy of its own Respeito post is indeed a special and unique tattoo, one I have never seen before, one that managed to steal my breath away. You see Amanda Wachob did not settle for the normal run of the mill Asian characters, cherries, hearts, In Memorial tattoo, In God We Trust or the all-time favorite Tribal tattoo. No Ms. Wachob -a tattoo artist and fine artist herself- sought out to use her body as a true artistic canvas.
According to her article in the New York Times:
Four years ago, Amanda Wachob, a tattoo artist and fine artist based in New York, started researching abstract expressionism and inadvertently helped inaugurate a growing trend of tattoos where aesthetic trumps tradition and the signature of the tattoo artist rivals the statement of the client.
Wachob notes:
I was looking at a lot of Hans Hofmann, thinking about the squares and rectangular shapes in his paintings. I wondered if these shapes were dictated by his rectangular canvas? And if he were going to make an abstract painting that wasn’t on a rectangle, but perhaps on an organic form like an arm, what would the shapes look like? That’s when I had the idea to try it with a tattoo. So much tattoo imagery has been repeated over and over again, I was interested in trying to find ways to evolve it. To play with color theory and see if shapes and forms could actually communicate something more than say a panther. I feel like people should have more options for something that is supposed to be so unique and personal.
The images above are the final product of Ms Wachob's careful research, beautiful watermark like images strewn across her upper body and arms, the tattoos convey a meticulously painted tribal like pattern that is entrancing.
Via: Selectism
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