Tattoo Men

Tattoo Men examines the human impulse to mark the body and the evolving meanings of those marks over time. The work asks how body art shapes identity communicates to strangers and ages with us. In contemporary Western culture tattoos are ubiquitous but as we—and our cultural values—evolve what happens to the marks that once defined us? The piece considers both the permanence and impermanence of self-expression reflecting on transformation legacy and the future of identity.