Video: Sculptures-tattoos by Drew Storm Graham
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Do you like the way tattoos look but aren't ready to apply this beauty to your own skin? Drew Storm Graham offers a great alternative: sculpture in the form of a tattoo. The same forms, the same drawings, only they will decorate not the body of the customer, but the interior of his house.
According to the sculptor, in high school he became interested in tattoos, seeing them as the most rebellious art form. “I was delighted with the tattoos because they were part of the opposite culture; they challenged the entire structure of social interaction. Tattoos exist all over the world without anyone's permission or approval and are often viewed as synonymous with self-mutilation. The art of tattoo is forbidden and confrontational."
Drew Storm Graham calls his work on creating tattoos-sculptures "Aslant Art" and claims that this is a special technique he developed in 2004. “In general, the composition and structure of each work can be described as a three-dimensional plane,” says the author. Back in his student years, Drew began to explore the possibilities of creating three-dimensional objects from flat plywood sheets. Each sculpture consists of several elements cut with a jigsaw. Then these elements are arranged in such a way that from a certain point of view they seem to be a single sculpture, and in addition they are painted in such a way that an illusion of volume is created. According to the author, from some distance it seems to the viewer that the sculpture is complete and voluminous, although in fact it consists of a number of flat parts. And those elements that seem to be several pieces connected together, in fact, often turn out to be one solid piece of plywood, painted with such an illusory effect.
Some of Drew Storm Graham's sculptures are based not on tattoos, but on graffiti. According to the author himself, these two trends in art have a lot in common, most often they express some kind of protest and do not find understanding in most of society.
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