The Artist in the Ink

Tattoos

Those who know me are always shocked to find out that I have a tattoo-- I actually have two. For many years I never wanted tattoos. From what I had seen, they were often a signal of sexual promiscuity (signs and symbols I would never want permanently placed on my skin). As I travel and see more styles, I believe the art in this form still exists! I have met some amazing tattoo artists who truly fill the name. To them, the human body is simply another canvas-- I would not mind displaying this type of art on my body.

The Body Revealed

Photograph: Joe Bonita

Available through Fine Art America

I love this photograph because it shows shape. Within the simple outlines of the arms and legs, I can discern hundreds of images, each with a narrative of this woman. The mystery behind the photograph is what intrigues an artist. The image can, very well, serve as a stimulus to eight different bodies of work.

Inspiration through old text...

"Aurora, sweet Chaldean, you read my meaning backward like your eastern books, while I am from the west, dear. Read me now a little plainer. Did you hate me quite but yesterday? I loved you for my part; I love you. If I spoke untenderly this morning, my beloved, pardon it; and comprehend me that I loved you so, I set you on the level of my soul, and over washed you with the bitter brine of some habitual thoughts. henceforth, my flower, be planted out of reach of any such, and lean the side you please, with all your leaves! Write woman's verses and dream woman's dreams; but let me feel your perfume in my home, to make my sabbath after working-days; bloom out our your youth beside me, -be my wife."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

Waiting on Letters Home

Dance For Camera

Premiered October 2009

Editor: tututay2

Dancer: confidential

Music: series of sound effects compiled and edited by tututay2

They're Etching Your Name in Stone

Showing Premiere

Friday, April 23, 2010

Choreographer

tututay2

Dancers

(currently confidential)

Music

A compilation of Verite and Veraison from Talkdemonic, edited by tututay2