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Fisherman´s tattoos, hardened by saltpeter and sun, fade away in bluish colors on the dry and worked skin of time. We looked for an explanation!
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THREE NEEDLES, INDIAN INK
AND A WHISKY
PICTURING AND WRITING BY THE TREND REINVENTED
Fisherman´s tattoos, hardened by saltpeter and sun, fade
away in bluish colors on the dry and worked skin of time.
We looked for an explanation! -“Occasionally it was a practice
between the sailsman to make this tattoos! Today people make it for
fashion” In 1981, Mr. Vasco, for fifty dollars, made his tattoos aboard a
ship in Newfoundland - Canada. Why the mermaid? - “…. I´m a man, I like
women”
When fishing cod, where the
tattoos date 1978, nostalgia and
reminders of the period without their
family was perpetuated in time. With
three rolled up needles and stinging at
cold blood, the cod “prisoners” made
several marks in their own body. The
sailor´s anchor that they usually
carried in they right arm represented
the life they took, the life of a
fisherman. The tattoos with names,
graved in a simplistic mode, were
actually a way to identify the body, in
case they had perished in sea and
someone was able to find them.
______________________________
The five “quinas” of the Portugal flag
have multiple meanings. For the
fisherman it represents being
imprisoned, meaning that they were
prisoners aboard a ship numerous
years of time.
“…We were inside a hole, a ship is a
hole in the middle of the ocean.”.
The main bezant represents the
prisoner; the other four bezants
symbolize the four walls that imprison
people on that site.
Mr. Jorge, tattooed in
Katendrecht, Rotterdam, a
mermaid, a vessel, his
own name, and
“Felicidade”, the name of
his girlfriend!
Mermaid:“… the main
reason was that I had a big
drunkenness and I was
well accompanied: look!!
You have to do it, it fits
you! I fell in to the
mousetrap and I made it.