Justin Kerson
Blood and Ink
Edition Size: 20
11.5 x 19 Inches 2-Color DNA Screen Print with Shotgun Embellishment on 100lb Cover French Paper
$ 66.60
This RUN comes in a one off TNT Sacred Geometry tube and includes 2 stickers from Justin Kerson.
Created with the belief that art is all around us, Justin Kerson’s latest twisted and morbid series of work titled Blood and Ink opens at White Walls Project Space Saturday, June 14th. Blood and Ink uses cotton and linen to capture the blood and ink of freshly done tattoos. Through blood and ink, Kerson wanted to emphasize that, in art, the process and concept are just as important as the end aesthetic results.
"I came across the concept on accident. After getting tattooed, the open wound requires a lot of antiseptic, so while I was sleeping, the tattoo transferred and smeared all over my Versace sheets, completely wrecking them. But by ruining them, I realized how well tattoos could transfer to fabric and produce these interestingly grotesque images. Tattooing is one of the oldest forms of art. Yet, still to this day, tattooing is shunted upon in the elite, avant-garde, fine-art world. When tattoos become apart of someone’s body, they no longer allow the art to have any tangible resale value. So by transferring it to a fabric, I have taken art off the body and made it a piece that can be sold and resold without expiration." - Justin Kerson
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