BLOODWORK: BOOK 2 PROOFS

Received the proofs for book 2.  Another 400+ pages to go through..........

Below a quick video tour that Sibel made of the loose pages.

BLOODWORK: LEE: HOLLOWAY

Back in the States.  Promptly jumped into the first of four days photographing for the BloodWork: Bodies project.  This final(ly) shoot is being hosted at Analog in San José.  Should be fun.  Today was mellow.  A backpiece on Sibel and a piece by Todd on Tristen.  Tomorrow things pick up.

THE PATH: BLOODWORK: SIBEL

Back from Australia for two days. Just enough time to wrap up Sibel's backpiece for the BloodWork project. Shine on you crazy diamond...

Tomorrow I make the jump to Osaka to tattoo for a few days before Max comes out. Soon more shooting begins...

BLOODWORK: BROOKLYN

Compiled and placed here for your exclusive visual and auditory consumption, footage from the BloodWork Brooklyn undertaking back in November.  On our last evening in town we were most fortunate to come upon a man of many years playing violin and kick drum on the platform.  Made for a pleasant soundtrack to the following...

Capture: adrian Lee
After Effects: Sibel Girini

THE PATH: SIBEL

THE PATH: SIBEL

THE PATH: SIBEL

Sibel after his second session awhile back. Another in a series of aggressive hand and face imagery. This tattoo focuses on the storm of life. Many cascading overlays of positive and negative space But the negative space needed to express violent movements and indicate it was coming from within. Kind of tricky and dont think I could have maintained the necessary heightened period of mental/physical energy input, so the initial sessions were short, loose, and aggressive. Here you can see we blasted in the info on his lower thigh. There are some secondary thoughts sketched in on his other thigh but that's for another day.