Lucas at my studio #5
Looks like Lucas has some good taste…
And yet such astoundingly tasteless tattoos! Wow.
They’re not real tattoos…
Well, I guess that’s encouraging, but why on earth put them on for a photo shoot? Sorry, I guess seeing people wear symbols of pretty severe gang violence for fashion gets (ho ho) under my skin.
They have no fixed meaning, whilst they are associated with violence they may be interpreted in any other way. Fashion has a long history of appropriation just as camouflage has a military history and has now become a staple of the fashion industry. Maharishi, famous for it’s ‘house’ camoflages has even gone so far as to recycle Military uniforms and ‘cleanse’ them in buddhist style ceremonies, in an attempt to extricate them from their previous context perhaps.
I see no reason that Tattoo culture should not be re-appropriated in the same way especially as the above tattoo has such varied interpretation available. Personally I am not keen on Tattoos and especially facial ones. It is very reductive of me but i feel that nothing exists outside the text…
Add to that the antagonistic anti-establishment nature of the Odd Future crew and you have some provocative content. Rise to it if you want.
(Source: terrysdiary)
