The Cut-Ups

Over 100 pages of tattoo flash feature Brian Kellys innovative cut-up method, which splices and interweaves traditional flash motifs into new and unexpected designs. Inspired by Dadaist literary technique and borrowing from the spirit of collage, these brush-painted and spit-shaded designs are traditional in style and method but wholly original in their combinations and juxtapositions. Traditional imagesroses and ships, eagles and daggers, hearts and skullsbecome dynamic and surprising, nearly dreamlike, and yet deeply familiar. The collection grew out of Kellys MFA thesis, which he continued to refine at The Rose of No Mans Land tattoo studio in Berlin. This is an excellent inspirational resource for tattoo artists, apprentices, and anyone interested in traditional or neotraditional tattoo style.