I was planning on not spending any more time on tattoo, but it continues to re-emerge. I suppose having tattoos forever on my skin wasn't the only permanent mark it leaves, having worked the trade for years, it is definitely a part of my catalogue of images, however way that may play into current work. I am interested in this 'image catalogue' and kinda want to exploit the rigidity of its representation in tattoo, by deconstructing those images on a flat surface. However the gutskin also represents a pre-textured surface, which like skin, reacts to the medium applied. In this case ink and acrylic paint. The intrinsic narrative of the gutskin as being 'innards', the insides of a body, then interacts with the destroyed image taken from tattoo. This questions the symbolic intention of the tattoo image, the ready-made reproductivity of that image as tattoo flash, and the symbolism that image maintains in its reproduction.
I am interested in the effect of breaking the tattoo image apart and applying it to stretched surface (especially one that interacts with the medium as gutskin does, both materially and symbolically) as something other than its commercial intention. It stops being tattoo flash, as the deconstructed image operates in terms outside of tattoo counterculture and is left to reinterpretation.
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