i got into print hells yeah

So I got into print as my first choice, nice one. Our first project was called Notions of Identity. I'm looking at tattoo's as a means of identification. There are a few different reasons people get tattoos, traumatic/natural tattoos which are marks upon your skin caused from accidents and traumas, these identify you and an experience in your life; amateur and professional tattoos which people get as marks of status, symbolism, out of traditions in your culture, decorations for bravery or status of slavery. The symbolism and impact vary depending on the culture you're dealing with. 

Quality of photo is fairly shit

An example is Papa New Guinea's Koita tribe. Traditionally tattooing begins at the ages of five for most woman and is added to annually until they are at marriagable age which they then receive the V shaped tattoo across their chest to symbolise coming of age. A woman from the Koita tribe can be seen in the above image. I looked at Maori tribes, the Croats, Christians and many other cultures that used tattooing as a part of traditional identification of their culture.

 For the image I first decided to print in silkscreen I printed a bitmap half tone of the Koita woman, the font next to her reads, "'Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD", in Hebrew. It's a passage from Leviticus. The majority of Christians do not take issue with the practice, while a minority uphold the Hebrew view against tattoos based on Leviticus. Tattoos of Christian symbols are common. When on pilgrimage, some Christians get a small tattoo dating the year and a small cross. This is usually done on the forearm.

I then looked at tattoo's people get to alter their own individuality. My friend has a really neat tattoo so I used her as my image and printed in a pop art style. I looked at the silkscreen artist Julien Opie http://www.julianopie.com/#/contact. When I was planning it out I had hoped for a thicker bolder black outline, it came out quite thin in the bitmap.