THREE NEEDLES, INDIAN INK

AND A WHISKY

PICTURING AND WRITING BY THE TREND REINVENTED

Fisherman´s tattoos, hardened by saltpeter and sun, fade

away in bluish colors on the dry and worked skin of time.

We looked for an explanation! -“Occasionally it was a practice

between the sailsman to make this tattoos! Today people make it for

fashion” In 1981, Mr. Vasco, for fifty dollars, made his tattoos aboard a

ship in Newfoundland - Canada. Why the mermaid? - “…. I´m a man, I like

women”

The heart of Jesus with the seven wounds of Christ.

“Felicidade” – name of the girlfriend

When fishing cod, where the

tattoos date 1978, nostalgia and

reminders of the period without their

family was perpetuated in time. With

three rolled up needles and stinging at

cold blood, the cod “prisoners” made

several marks in their own body. The

sailor´s anchor that they usually

carried in they right arm represented

the life they took, the life of a

fisherman. The tattoos with names,

graved in a simplistic mode, were

actually a way to identify the body, in

case they had perished in sea and

someone was able to find them.

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The five “quinas” of the Portugal flag

have multiple meanings. For the

fisherman it represents being

imprisoned, meaning that they were

prisoners aboard a ship numerous

years of time.

“…We were inside a hole, a ship is a

hole in the middle of the ocean.”.

The main bezant represents the

prisoner; the other four bezants

symbolize the four walls that imprison

people on that site.

Mr. Jorge, tattooed in

Katendrecht, Rotterdam, a

mermaid, a vessel, his

own name, and

“Felicidade”, the name of

his girlfriend!

Mermaid:“… the main

reason was that I had a big

drunkenness and I was

well accompanied: look!!

You have to do it, it fits

you! I fell in to the

mousetrap and I made it.

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