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This Artist Creates Tattoos That Are A Combination Of “Where I Want To Be And Where I Actually Am,” And Here Are 20 Of The Best Ones
Vasif Daniel Kahraman, once a graphic designer and art director, nowadays works as a tattoo artist in İstanbul. In his childhood, with the help of his aunt who introduced him to drawing, he discovered that he may transform the violence and neglect he encountered at home into different realities. His artistic journey that started as redrawing cartoon characters later advanced into creating his own original stories and characters.
After the untimely death of his beloved aunt, he left his family home when he was just 16 years old and started to work at Penguen, one of the best humor magazines in Turkey. His career in this artistic field continued as he spent more than 10 years working for esteemed comic magazines like Lombak, Kemik, and Uykusuz. He gathered valuable experience there and with the help of his fellow artists, he developed a unique style.
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As tattoo technology advanced, he figured more detailed works could be produced and started to educate himself on the materials needed for tattoo making, as well as the tenderness of the human skin. For this effort, he did a lot of tattoos on himself before he started to work on others.
Vasif believes he can tell his story with his art. The poverty and the violence he suffered as a kid are transformed into the tattoos he himself calls “Pellucid.” Pellucid as a word means “able to be seen through with clarity” or “transparently clear”. He describes his designs as a combination of “where I want to be and where I actually am”.
Just in the same sense, Vasif’s pellucid works express an inner clarity that can even be seen from the outside. The pellucid works emerged as an expression of the violence he encountered as a kid and the hope he always carries. The style he created searches to open the soul; it is for those who know where they are and who are not afraid to show where they once were. Or maybe for those who just want a cool tattoo.
He's pretending he IS an elephant. His arms hanging in front of him are his trunk. He's imitating the lumbering, side to side gait of an elephant by showing the boy leaning slightly to one side. The movement portrayed in this is incredible.
Beautiful tattoos! But I wonder what they look like when time passes. Ink works in mysterious ways.
I get my tats touched up about ever 3 years or so, as needed. I also use lotion every day.
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2 personalities on one picture is what I got from this, and it’s perfect!
They're very pretty, but like the water colour tattoos that were trendy a few years ago, they will fade to shapeless blotches very quickly, even if you take the best care of them.
Beautiful tattoos! But I wonder what they look like when time passes. Ink works in mysterious ways.
I get my tats touched up about ever 3 years or so, as needed. I also use lotion every day.
Load More Replies... 2 personalities on one picture is what I got from this, and it’s perfect!
They're very pretty, but like the water colour tattoos that were trendy a few years ago, they will fade to shapeless blotches very quickly, even if you take the best care of them.
