Despite being one of humanity’s oldest artforms, you don’t see a ton of tattooed portraits hanging in the Louvre. Call it a sign of the times as the Old Masters weren’t commissioned to paint portraits of many folks sporting tribal arm bands. But—hear me out here—what if they were? That’s what Patteef has imagined throughout his five-minute collages. What started out as a little fun on his personal Instagram snowballed into a full-blown art project. In the conversation below you’ll learn how the project came about, why he can’t quite consider it art, and much more.
It’s not like I grew up in a household with a high focus on art, but somehow the arts were always there. There were
