"In The Beginning" [Reflections On Book - 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design Stephen Heller and Veronique Vienne - #2 ]
Since stone-age man tattoos have been
Adorned upon some person’s skin
As brands enslaving to some boss,
Or punishments with freedom lost.Such body-art, ’till now away
From life I knew from day to day,
Is rampant, meaning’s mellowed out
With TV shows assuaging doubt.The living surface of our skin
Can be where art and life begin;
Was it, as well, start of design?
Big bang in past – some living sign –Of days to come – cave walls of stone,
With leather clothes, and bundled homes;
Then parchment pages of some scroll
Designed, embossed, as ages rolled –To present surfaces for art?
Did humble tattoo give a start
To what design does here today,
For which, at auction, bidders pay?Lord, as we think of hands and feet,
Your wounded side, eyes rise to meet
Thorne-wounds on skin like needled signs
Which artists use in tattoo lines.So as we think of body-art,
Blue paint of wode as warfare starts;
For short or long-term – symbols drawn
On skin – new eras thus are spawned.Thanks Lord for this.
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