COPTIC JERUSALEM TATTOO PILGRIMS TATTOO FLASH SERIES

Trhough our history, in the holy land where Jesus Christ did live and travelled moving on his sacred messages, came to light an important amount of sacred places, where spiritual followers gathered to discuss about his testimonials, miracles, good actions, speeches… Pilgrims from other countries infact, ran across the lands to pay tribute to God and Spiritual Energies even for week or months, managing provisional camps in selected territories duty to stay. During their paths to arrive there, miles and miles walking often where abitual to meet some itinerant tattoo men that mark on their bodies a various number of Sacred subjects representing the life of Jesus, Holy Mary, about life of the saints or their gesture of good. Since appeared in ancient times this practice got promulgated becoming part of the experience as well, a lot of people who received this tattoos did show them in their community, in their families, this new souvenirs de voiages.

With the pass of time that practice did spreaded all over in those lands, becoming almost usual to get for whom travelled and got abitual in their pilgrimages. At that time the first basic repertory it conprehend the figure of Christ, the the holy dove, stars, Angels, Vigin Mary, after, passing decades over decades the number of subjects turn expanded at almost 40 or more designs and a more complex aim for both lectural patrimony of Sacred witnesses and their significance to perpetrate the holy messages .

For achieve these materials i did researches on book sources, anriched of old designs, rilieves, wrotten tales, and more recent heritage of old photographs. Lately this study did go under clarification and analisys from anthropologists, historicians and students in universities in all the countries in the world.

One of the most prominent testimonial is out of doubt the Razzouk Family, operating inside the walls of the ancient city of Jerusalem, they started this career meeting the great crowd coming every day both from inside the city and much more in constant contact with hundreds or thousands people from outside. Infact from the lasts 7 generations this family contiued the work as the long life during, just collecting and building their long line of abitual consumers and devoted.

The process to tattoo was simple and practice at the same time. They built in wood or cooked earth the stamp-pads to print with coal the images on skin. After drying the design adequately, using a simple sawing needles tightened in a wrap of cotton line, they where sinking in a black ink obtained mixing charcoal powder and water then pushing this needles right in the skin of the loyal.

Since the first sketches done with pencil on paper, i proceeded refining any drawing step by step resolving both layouts and symbolic aims and order. Working on with pen and Indian Ink for lines and in some cases packing parts, then finishing each drawing using ecoline and brushes of various sizes.

Copies are realized in normal A3 sheet size, the original ones where scanned at 2400 dpi and printed with high-tech printer on very good quality paper 180gr. This offer are ideal to those who want to expose and furnish at their studio’s walls a perfect logical and stylist weapon or for traveller artist who desire to bring-em as samples. An amazing instrument to build relationships and open new dialogue between tattooists and motor enthusiast customers all over the world.

Every Tattoo flash set by Markingegno it is accompanied with basic outlines extra foils, very practice and realdy for tracing, stencil, rework and adaptations, this ones are printed in standard A3 white paper.