She called herself Twiggy Electric, and this is how our conversation went:
Tattoosday (BC): Is there any significance...
Twiggy Electric (TE): There is, um, it's more about what you see, so...
BC: Okay
TE: What do you see?
BC: Well, when you say Twiggy, then I think twigs.
TE: Okay, obviously, but that has more to do with the model, so I'm actually curious what you see...
BC: Oh, lines and cracks and fissures and, there's some structure in there. Barbed wire, but not really like in that tacky, like '80s, '90s barbed wire arm band type of thing
TE: Okay
BC: Concentric circles around the lower part of the arm. Um, so I... I don't see...they're just fissures and cracks in your arm
TE: Right, okay
BC: Is that okay?
TE: Yeah, no it's cool. My vision between the entire thing [notices the phone out] You're recording, I see
BC: Is that okay? [Train pulls into station slowly, noisily]
TE: Yeah, that's cool. You didn't ask me first...
BC: Sorry, Sorry [Thinks to self, I though it was obvious, I was holding my phone out.]
TE: But I see that you are, so but my vision
BC: I don't put the recording up there
TE: is to force people to view things artistically
BC: So you force people to view things artistically?
TE: Yeah, so um, they're just lines. That's it.
BC: just lines, that's it?
TE:No other structure, that's it.
BC: Okay
TE: The way I view it is, ordered chaos, in a way.
BC: Okay
TE: The first circle is closed and all the other ones are open That's something you're gonna see if you look very closely, but the whole point behind seeing things artistically is, you pick up on your own vision.
Here's another shot of Twiggy Electric's tattoos, much more artistic, copied from a public photo on her Instagram:
Thanks to Twiggy Electric for sharing her tattoo, and for engaging me in a discussion about the work.
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1 comment:
More like an abstract tattoo for me, but its cool.
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