"Black and Grey Ink"

Another night at work on a Saturday night, waiting tables and chatting to the customers. My next table arrives and with it my next post.

 

She walked in with the rest of the "Hen Party" and stood out from the crowd. Dressed head to toe in black with a brilliant head full of auburn locks. Around her neck was a brilliant Victorian style choker that had small chains draped from the black necklace. The chains bought your attention to the two swallows sweeping below her collar bones protruding brilliantly underneath her pale skin. Her pale skin made for the perfect canvas to exhibit her "black and grey ink" especially when she removed her cropped black jacket to reveal a corset and the tiniest waist with a back full of tattoos. The corset drew her waist into her hips, covered in a pencil cut skirt with simple black shoe boots. She was rocking this look right and committed. Committed to her body ART.

 

The food arrives and whilst serving it did I start to notice how brilliant her tattoo's and look is. 

 

Ladies and Gents, I give you Laura Gravenell.

 

 

What I love about her look is the mystery it leaves her audience with. Her audience, us the strangers on the streets and on the table next to her, the mystery been, how far does the ink flow. The skull on her left shoulder blade is death smiling gauntly from under flowers that are so alive. Living on her skin in their monochrome world. Then the more I looked at her tattoos you notice there's another but as her corset blocks it's deathly smile you wonder if that is another skull or another subject of her ART. The wings on her arm fly around to complete a bird flying amongst some more flowers alive on her skin.

 

You don't notice it at first and think that it is just an "Hawaiian inspired" shape(forgive me Laura if it's not Hawaiian inspired), but at the centre of the flowers pouring out, smiling back at you the face of Jack Skellington, from "The Nightmare before Christmas," There is humour in her ART but also a real sense of commitment to what she really believes in and likes.

 

Laura, you are doing this well. If you get anymore let me know as I would love to share it here on ensem-BLAH.

 

xoxo