In Ink Mapping: Video Mapping Projection on Tattoos by Oskar and Gaspar, live models are used as a canvas to have images projected onto them. The models used are real people with their own tattoos, which the artists then project over and around. They use projection mapping to both accentuate the people’s real tattoos and to add fake tattoos and visual effects. This method of animating tattoos is visually striking, and is quite similar to the animation of the tattoos on the character Maui in the movie Moana, for it creates movement to what is normally a still image.
It is clear that the artists, Oskar and Gaspar, are intrigued by tattoos, the stories behind them, and how art can be a part of a person. More importantly, it seems they are fully interested in expanding upon the beauty of body art by linking an incredibly old, traditional method of art (tattooing) and modern, technological art (projection mapping). Rather than making one coherent story, Oskar and Gaspar add to the small story that lives within every tattoo. All tattoos have a unique and personal story created by it’s wearing and interpreted by its viewers, and, over time, that story grows. Oskar and Gaspar capture this concept beautifully, as well as showing how tattoos connect people to one another.
