TATTOO DESIGN TIME LAPSE BY DAVID TEVENAL

Let me throw this out there: I'm not a big fan of tattoo art, I think that like graffiti art in particular, it shares some common shortcomings. For example both of them have just a handful of artist that really push the boundaries of their medium, be it by incorporating new techniques, by not following the trend or by re-contextualizing their work.

Even if well executed, some art expressions become self referencing, mimetic. Obscuring their possibilities as valid communications channels, or as artforms per se. However, that could be said for any discipline.

As simple spectators what we only get to see, 90% of the time, is the collected work, the finished product, packed and serialized for us to collect until we sate our urge of it, and move on. What we do not get to see as often as at least I would like, is the beautiful process behind any artwork, the long way from the blank canvas, to something radically different. A piece of art.

The video above is a time lapse of David Tevenal's process, a damn fine artist who really cares about advancing the medium of tattoo art.