The ArtFusion Experiment
maintains two distinct elements:
ArtFusion Performances and
ArtFusion Camp
Tattoo artists, due to their craft's
medium, have artistic skills honed beyond normal levels. Everyday,
they must create on-demand, with no room for error or an opportunity
to erase. Not having the luxury of an "off day" develops
their ability to create spontaneously and gears them perfectly to
be a viable role in this collaborative gathering. ArtFusion Performances
are public events intended to increase awareness of the tattoo artist's
capacity for fine art. They offer insight into the nature of tattoo
fine art for the general public and any viable media source.
While the concept of utilizing the collaborative process remains consistent
in both, ArtFusion Camp is a learning tool, exclusively catered
to the tattoo artist. ArtFusion Camp affords the masters of skin art
an opportunity to share their fine art skills with their peers on
an intimate level. Most importantly, they must do so in an extreme
creative environment. Any one artist could spend an hour detailing
an element of a canvas and in the blink of an eye, another artist
may step in and change it entirely. Though this presents the most
frustrating element of the exercise, it is an integral part of the
ego-cleansing process that is so inherent of ArtFusion Camp. As a
result, a newfound unity develops between the artists.
Through the chaos that is the ArtFusion Experiment, many harmonies
reveal themselves. All egos are left at the door. All politics are
forgotten. All territory is neutral. Language barriers cease to exist,
as art is the universal language. Consequently, a Dutch artist, a
Russian artist and a Chinese artist (walk into a store, the Chinese
guy says to the Dutch guy
) can work collaboratively with minimal
verbal communication, the end result being a single style, so distinctive
and unique, you can never tell that more than one artist was involved.