Following on from Tuesday evening’s post - https://lifedrawing.substack.com/p/back-in-the-day - detailing cancel culture and Crass I only went and had a tattoo by the wonderful artist Rachel Cook.
Rachel works out of Two Rivers Tattoo Parlour in Penarth - rachelcooktattoo@gmail.com - and did a fine and professional job of inking the Crass logo onto my breast.
It’s still a little raw and settling in but here is a sneak peak :)
Come to our Christmas Party on Tuesday to see the new tattoo in all of its glory!
https://lifedrawingwales.co.uk/our-meetups/
‘The following extract is from George Berger’s book the story of Crass
When Pen had finished the book, he asked Dave King to design “a little frontispiece. I’d printed them up on this rough grey paper and it had a militaristic, communistic feel about it. I thought it’d be nice to have a little insignia on it.”
So Dave set to work on a design incorporating the subject matter of the book – family, state, church – all the power structures. As Rimbaud remembers, he started with the Greek symbol, The Star of Life, which features a snake climbing a pole in the middle of a six-pointed star and can be seen today on many British ambulances as a symbol of health. Having gone through a number of different designs, he came up with what would become known worldwide as the Crass symbol. A striking black and white mish-mash of ancient and modern symbols, it could mean most things to most people: try and you might see within it the Christian cross, the Union Jack, the Swastika and two snakes devouring each others’ tails. It looks for all its worth like the sort of symbol you might find in an Egyptian pyramid or an ancient book of spells.’
