Tattoo: September 14-21, 2023
Design a tattoo - for you, for someone else, for no one at all - using whatever art medium you like. Bonus points if you actually get it tattooed permanently on your body.
The Submissions:
by Espy la Copa
I have always been so confused and angry with certain fantasy characters. Why did Alice leave Wonderland? Why was Dorothy such a homebody? What's so great about going home? (Props to Peter Pan, for embracing the weird world and learning to fly). But the worst heroine decision was from Labyrinth, when Sarah left the Goblin King and his twisted labyrinth world. Why give up power, magic and love for the real world? It never made sense.
This tattoo represents those sentiments and is inspired from a scene in the movie. Sarah and Hoggle pop in and out of magic doors, liminal spaces, and even giant urns that seem to lead nowhere, getting ever farther and ever closer to the castle at the center of the labyrinth.
This design is a peek into my decision to stay in the labyrinth (if I were in Sarah's awesome 80s shoes), and live it up with the goblins and Jareth, partying my ass off, popping in and out of magical spaces (with a negroni, obvs). I added one of the Knockers from the movie to the urn so it's not COMPLETELY obscure to everyone else.
Skip to 2:45 for the scene:
by Captain Quillard
Fellow Artpocalypse member Espy la Copa and I were having drinks in the Art Deco “Orchids at Palm Court” bar in Cincinnati after a music festival we attended this past weekend, and I was admiring the horse-fish sculpture/fountains there. Espy explained that those are Kelpies, legendary creatures thought to lure children to their death and eat them. I told her one of us needed to create a Kelpie tattoo for this week’s assignment. This is my attempt.
Next Week’s Assignment:
Write a piece about autumn, using a style similar to or inspired by the classic McSweeney’s submission, “It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers.” (Cursing not required, but strongly encouraged.)