This piece of writing creates a picture that helps the reader understand what he does and why he does it. He uses this interview as a way to teach people that tattoos and piercings can have a deep meaning and look like a "biker tattoo". The man is Ph.D. student, if anyone hears that they mostly think of a clean male or woman who was never a bad person in life. He is just what I describe but with tattoos that show where he's been and what it may have took to get there. The statement that caught my eye the most was this because he is making a mark in the world proving not all tattooed, body piercing people are awful non-creditable people.
"Taken as art, tattoos unite disparate cultures, says Skip Pahl, who displayed Rainer's photographs at California's Oceanside Museum of Art. The images attracted an unusually diverse group of museumgoers : Samoan immigrants, surfers, gang members, U.S.. Marines and devout Latinos, all of who have their own tattoo aesthetic."
The world is an amazing place to live, the amount of attentions tattoos receive is not credited at all. I never thought of a museum sections to be made up of tattoo pictures, and more importantly the large amount of people who go to visit it. Imagine walking in and seeing a gang member looking at the same picture a U.S. Marine is looking at, its just unheard of. Reading this article and noticing how different people of different tattoo aesthetic can study each others art and get a feeling of what they may be dealing with or have a relatable tattoo. Since I do not own any tattoos I am not well with noticing a tattoo with meaning unless the owner explains it. That's the best part, to listening to a memory or story that a piece of art on their body represents and understanding why it meant so much to the creator of the piece.
Tattoos can be anything to anyone but the only person who can tell you the real meaning behind it is the one who got it. The photo on the left shows an old man who has a guy with a push mower on his bald spot. I love this photo because a man just like him lived in my hometown and went to my church. When I was little I always giggled at the man because as a little kid it was just stupid humor. I never did ask the man what it meant but to me it represents growing old and having some fun with it. By that age most people already have their identity so if ever made fun of for that art work it wouldn't effect his everyday life style. I chose the other picture because it seems like the complete opposite of the first one. I focus on the gun shot wounds that are on the right side of his body the most. To me they mean he has been hurt or in harms way in an event so drastic that it took a toll on his life that he needs to be reminded of.
People with tattoos do not need to be judged because of what they have on their body instead they should be asked why they did it, find out more about that memory. Everyone feels a different way in life and care about different things. The Ph.D. student does it because he believes in certain ways of life and wants to share that information with the world. All the tattoos in the museums create new ideas for the up and coming generations to really go out and explore what you believe in and how you want to represent yourself. Life is to short to forget good or bad memories its what you do about that, makes you the person who you are and how you want to represent that thought.
Interesting , I also believe that tattoos are not credited enough. People should value tattoos a lot more.Good Post !
ReplyDeleteI really like how you said, "Imagine walking in and seeing a gang member looking at the same picture a U.S. Marine is looking at, its just unheard of." This sentence describes unity through the expression of someone's body art, and both of those people do not even know the tattooed man in the picture. It is quite amazing what a tattoo or art can accomplish.
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