Tattooed Parlor
Visions of skin, and permanence, and the transience of the body and marks on paper and experimental materials, coupled with a fascination for the unlikely combination of sailors, and the docks, work shorts, and stockings coalesced into a room filled with scores of identically dressed participants, each having selected and applied their own tableau of tattoos, gathered to explore notions of focus and creative energy. Her passion for collaboration and craft, and Ms. Darker’s growing fascination with ritual, led her to formalize a ritual around the altar, as a place of repetition, habit, and a center-piece of holding creative space and energy.
