LUCY CHEUNG

Found via http://e-l-i-s-e.blogspot.com/

Jagannath, Balarama, Subhadra photos by Vrindavan Lila

The completed lip tattoos of women were significant in regards to Ainu perceptions of life experience. First, these tattoos were believed to repel evil spirits from entering the body (mouth) and causing sickness or misfortune. Secondly, the lip tattoos indicated that a woman had reached maturity and was ready for marriage. And finally, lip tattoos assured the woman life after death in the place of her deceased ancestors.

Apart from lip tattoos, however, Ainu women wore several other tattoo marks on their arms and hands usually consisting of curvilinear and geometric designs. These motifs, which were begun as early as the fifth or sixth year, were intended to protect young girls from evil spirits…Other marks were placed on various parts of the body as charms against diseases like painful rheumatism.

http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/tattooing_among_japans_ainu.htm

http://siris-collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=ainu+tattoo&x=0&y=0

A bronze ritual wine bucket From The Genius of China: 

It may have symbolized a helper among spirits of the underworld, for it might be thought to guide well in the dark.

Come see some art this Friday 6th June! There are many good things to see on the 6th floor studio, including my own work…

The Leeds School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design

GUEST PREVIEW

6pm – 9pm

6th (and 7th and 8th?) floor studio of H Building, Leeds Met Gallery and Fine Art Studios
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS1 3HE

Hello, I’m away in Amsterdam helping Patrick Gildersleeves with his AWESOMO POWERA art show. It is full of massive felt-tip drawings and small and big intricate drawings of amusing things with influences like Aztec/Inca/Mayan type imagery. If you are anywhere near Amsterdam this weekend, come see! It’s the last weekend it’ll be open for.

EEA-ASA
European Exchange Academy Art Space Amsterdam
Rokin 114
1012 LB Amsterdam
Tel. 06-51175871

Friday 25th/Saturday 26th 11-6pm
Sunday 27th 11-5pm