I agree, although I think tattoos are more suited to military men, it should be down to personal choice,but sometimes when i see some nice young firm female flesh tattooed,I wonder if the wearer has thought of how it will look when she is is thirty years older and that flesh is creased and wrinkled.
Oh, I am not judging her nor any one who cares to use ink, that's their choice. It just kills the scene for me because it distracts me from her body, particularly annoying if you are dealing with a crucifixion or a scene from the Inquisition.
Well, you should develop some fantasies/fetishes set in New Zealand among the Maori.
Beau à fouetter, violer et crucifier. Beau - Beautiful to whip, rape and crucify. Beautiful
Yup, when that line of elephants holding their trunks inked on the small of her back ends up looking like a shapeless amoeba. There are cultures that hold tattoos in high esteem; where they are even a matter of safety and recognition. For ex. you want to know who is friend or foe (tribal or clan member) and tattoos are very effective in determining that in the midst of a forest environment, like a quick identification label. But that is not the case here. In other cultures tattooing is high art (as can be the case in ours), the problem is that most of the tats you see are just repetitive banal subjects, cartoons that can be reproduced a zillion times. So, in the end, what you think makes you unique and individual just makes you part of a herd. . . To each his or her own as they say.
Point taken. But tattoos had a social purpose as you well state, to differentiate the well born from the low born, to differentiate the warrior of many battles from the beginner or, as I commented before, to differentiate friend from foe or potential foe. This is different, the tattoos she is sporting are certainly not Thracian, Scythian, etc., just banal cliches, like most of the ones I see. She is no Scythian woman suffering on the cross. . .Skin art kills my own narrowly focused fantasies/fetishes set in Rome.
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On the other hand, I’ve read tattooing was known in in the ancient world, but only for criminals or slaves.
On the other other hand:
But among many of the ancient cultures the Greeks and Romans encountered—Thracians, Scythians, Dacians, Gauls, Picts, Celts, and Britons, to name a few—tattoos were seen as marks of pride. Herodotus tells us that for the Thracians, tattoos were greatly admired and “tattooing among them marks noble birth, and the want of it low birth.”
Ancient Tattoos - Archaeology Magazine
www.archaeology.org
So by all means, tattooed crucified barbarian women will do nicely, especially if they’re naked.
A woman's body is a thing of beauty. I totally agree with you that the tattoos detract from the original masterpiece. An example of how they can be out of place is this hot blonde on the rack in Catherine's Interrogation. The tattoo on her lower left (not too clear in these pix) is quite out of place as she is stretched and getting filled with the vaginal pear. Vaginal pear...now there is another subject worth exploring. I wonder if any of our ladies have any experience there?
I believe all my previous girlfriends, and my wife, have had gynecological examinations which involve spreading the vagina with a scapula. In that sense, I suspect there are quite a lot of women, potentially even here at CF, who have had some sort of similar experience.
She wriggles beautifully....
I hope you enjoyed the job. Wragg did an extraordinary job.A compelling series here. I confess I had not ever thought to use Name of the Rose as a source for backgrounds, but it makes sense. I particularly like your treatment of laying down the patibulum and stretching the girl out on the cross. Always my favourite bit, and one of the trickiest to manip, in my experience. You've made it very vivid and brought it to life here in #4 and #5.
