untitled. 65cmx50cm paper. 2010

danish artist jacob dahlstrup uses a tattooing machine like a pen on heavy water color paper and creates a three-dimensional line. after sketching a skull and flowers with an ordinary pencil, he goes over the lines with a tattoo needle.

paper tattoo by jacob dahlstrup on a sailors grave (no roses grow) 65cm x 50cm, 200grms paper. 2010

‘key to my practice is a process of calculated spontaneity and pre-planned coincidence through which I work primarily with a combination of drawing and installation. through merging of material and context I explore the visual language of nautical folklore, which tells the story of faith, hope, love, and the struggle to get to the non-existing point in the horizon’. J.D.

paper tattoo by jacob dahlstrup untitled. 65cmx50cm paper. 2010

paper tattoo by jacob dahlstrup untitled. 65cmx50cm paper. 2010

On a Sailors Grave (no roses grow) from Jacob Dahlstrup on Vimeo.

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