The Thing

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Chris Woodhead has found a way to cope with the Corona-Virus-pandemic: A New Tattoo on his own body, for each day of the lockout.

Sitting on the sofa in his flat in Walthamstow, north-East London , with His Dog , Pingu from his side, Chris Woodhead, is trying to find space for another Tattoo on his already crowded body.

It is left the little unmarked skin from The Tips of his fingers on the soles of his feet, almost every square inch of it is covered by a huge mess of tattoos in various styles. A pair of dice fell, just before the toes of his right foot start, a Scorpion, stretches down to his inner leg, it is a leaning palm tree, a fish sword, bow hovering in the shape of a love heart and a Voodoo Doll over some ripe, shiny cherries.

Chris was regularly tattoos since he was 18, 15 years. Growing Up , he was obsessed with the Tattoo -heavy US-punk music scene, and later discovered that Duncan X, is an icon of British tattooing, known to be a style by using bold, black ink to draw contemporary illustrations.

"Duncan X tattooed me when I was 19 says," Chris. "And Then my Best Friend has a Tattoo started and he used me as a canvas, he had More Than 400 to me. "

at the beginning of the block, Chris had around 1,000 designs on his body. Now he has 40 more and counting. If the East London Tattoo studio, where he works as an artist closed in lockdown, he went into isolation with his pregnant wife, Ema, and decided to get a New Tattoo , per day, for as long as it went on.

"I found myself working, not knowing what to do and to eat all the food in the cabinets," Chris. "So the idea, the Tattoo itself was Every Day , to me a bit of direction. Without structure people are at a complete loss. "

Every afternoon between 2 PM and 4 PM, Chris down designs inspired by his current situation. Then, when he made a Cup of tea, he puts the ink in a pot and grabs the needle. He is ready for the transfer of his drawing permanently on his skin.

"I think tattooing is therapeutic anyway. At The Moment I'm on the draw what's on my head," he says. "And there's not much else going on in my head at The Moment , apart from this monumental Crisis . "

Tattoo reading "when will it end?" on the soles of Chris ' feet.

On the wrinkled skin of the sole of his left foot, Chris has The Words written, "WHEN WILL IT END?" At the very bottom in his right leg, it is a spherical Coronavirus particles. On his chest - a place where it "feels like it goes straight to the bone" - Chris resisted The Pain to Tattoo his own tribute to the National Health Service.

"The Thing I find so deeply sad that it is this situation for the people to truly appreciate the NHS, and to realize that their jobs are incredibly hard," he says.

For his 12th day lockdown Tattoo , Chris added a springing tiger to his body in tribute to Joe "Exotic" Maldonado-Passage - The Star of the Netflix docu-series Tiger-king, a lockdown match that he and Ema had just been watching.

A week later, he was inspired by The Birth of a niece to Tattoo the logo of Japanese mayonnaise maker Kewpie, a cute wide-eyed baby. And on day 23 Chris inked a picture of a sperm swimming to his upper arm, a reference to The Child that Ema and he will be In July .

Chris is a low-tech tattooing technique known as the hand used to push, in a hand-held needle is used to push the ink deep into The Skin , without the use of electricity. The Method is gaining popularity, he says, because it is much less disruptive and painful than a Tattoo with a Tattoo gun.

"It's like a quill, dip it in a pot of ink, but you are only able to dot it into The Skin ," Chris. "It's really, really hard, to be exact - every point counts - and it takes much longer than working with a Tattoo gun. "

But he is also aware that he is save, you must have a space on his body to Tattoo the name of his new child when it arrives. So he has to calculate how much less Tattoo skin he has left to continue his lockdown project.

The Answer is: not much.

"I want you to have good tattoos, so they try to make them exciting, realistic, I will probably leave for a month in the value of the Tattoo room," says Chris.

"If I'm really honest, I look Ridiculous - I look like a piece of Blue Cheese . There is very little space that I can actually reach. "

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self-isolation, coronavirus pandemic, photography, tattoos, walthamstow

Source of news: bbc.com