As you see in this picture, the letters on left look smudged but not the ones on the right side, and both of these were drawn at the same time using same pen. Using Rapidograph Indian Ink Ultradraw 3085-F ink and Rapidograph Pen, I scribbled few things on the canvas and left it to dry for little over 30 minutes, and on the top of ink-work I painted acrylic color, and just some of under lying ink-work started to bleed.
This is about my latest painting where I have Indian ink drawing on the bottom layer and a transparent acrylic layer above that, and as soon as I applied acrlyic paint, Indian-ink started bleeding. This way, the artist is aware of the process and I’m not picking things off the Internet blindly.”Should you go to her for a tattoo, rest assured, it’ll be an original.Title of this post might have given an impression that is not related to “Acrylic” but please read further. Lately, Jhaveri has been working with Warli artists from Maharashtra to come up with a sheet or two of flash tattoos “where the artist studies the human anatomy and composes designs based on different placements. I’ve also created literature around it, and when people ask about them, I try to introduce them to the original art forms that have inspired them.” “For each of these folk art forms, I’ve tried to explore in depth.
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“Tattooing is a key income generator for a lot of these people who, let’s face it, often do not come from places of privilege.” She insists that the endeavour has to be to protect these art forms and help the artists behind them not repackage and sell it to an urban, Western audience who might think of it as ‘cool’ and ‘exotic’. This is tricky terrain, but Jhaveri also underlines the need to do what she and tattoo artists like her are doing – but ethically. To encourage the art form and its practitioners, Mo Naga has kickstarted an ambitious project for a physical space, the Godhna Gram in Manipur eventually, perhaps, he’ll put out a coffee table book documenting this culture. “I don’t talk too much about what I have discovered in my studies and travels over the past decade, we need to be careful and sensitive with the way we put out this information into the world,” he says.
He remains wary of cultural co-option especially, because tattooing in Naga culture is a marker of identity.
Whatever Mo Naga has learned has been evolved into what he calls neo-Naga tattoos: Where the styles are borrowed in part, not exported as a whole, as their meanings remain sacrosanct to the tribes that developed them. Mo Naga spent the better part of last decade touring the north-eastern states, living in villages, understanding the meanings of tattoos, methods of drafting tools from bamboo thorns and pigments from the flora of the region, techniques such as the Konyak style of tattooing, as well as the historical reasons why Naga tattoos are a cultural artefact on the verge of extinction. After a few years of exploring tattoo culture, almost as a hobby, he returned home to have his eyes opened to the rich tattooing traditions of the Naga tribes of his homeland.ĭocumenting vanishing tattoo tradition at Laruri Village, Phek district, Nagaland. But also, while still in college, to tattooing as an art form, where he could incorporate the design sensibilities that most influenced him. Over a decade ago, the Manipur-based artist trained at NIFT and felt drawn to the weaves of India.
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