My Favorite Material To Work With Is Human Skin, So Here Are My 52 Tattoo Works

I've been drawing since I was 11 years old, and there hasn't been a moment in my life when I didn't want to do it. I gave up so much for it. I believe that art is my fun, my culture, my lover, my ritual, my everything.

At different times in my life, I experimented with different kinds of art. I made handmade ancient Greek musical instruments, sculptures from clay and wood, played with watercolors and did some pencil drawings. I worked with different materials and discovered that my favorite material to work with is human skin. I'm currently drawing a fairy tale book but I can't finish it yet because of the intensity of my tattoo work. Some of these drawings have even been tattooed already.

While making art, I realized that a person's body is the most valuable material and that I want to make people happy when they look at my work on their bodies... I don't think there's anything more gratifying than carrying the fairytale design that one imagines in his body all his life.

In my work, I love to tell the fairytale stories which happen in our dreams, intertwined with nature and animals. The stories that depict the times when we were children giving people positive energy. I'm passionate about nature and animals because I believe that the more dependent we are on nature, the more free we are as individuals...

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Woman Saves Sable From Becoming Someone’s Coat, And They Become Best Friends (19 Pics)

When Zhenya found a picture of a wild sable online, she instantly fell in love with it and decided to learn more about it. Turns out, the animal has one of the most expensive kinds of fur in the world. The bloody fur industry finds it superior to that of other animals due to its silky texture and range of colors from beige to black.

In Russia, the demand for sable fur is growing as it’s used to produce items such as bedspreads and even underwear. According to reports, there are around 70 farms in the country that raise and kill wild sable and other animals for their fur. And that was the destiny of the cute animal Zhenya saw on the internet; to die and become someone else’s commodity.

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Determined to do her part, Zhenya set out to rescue the poor critter. “Eventually, I learned that there was an opportunity to buy her out from a fur farm,” the woman told Bored Panda. “She would have died there, so I decided to save the little fella.”

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Now, the two are living together and enjoying life to the fullest. However, Zhenya worked really hard for it. “Umora has a difficult personality. Living in the fur farm really took a toll on her, so she’s quite emotional, sometimes even a bit hysterical. Umora is also cheeky and likes to steal stuff. She’s very active and smart as well.”

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All things considered, Zhenya even advises against keeping a sable as a pet. “One has to go through a lot before they can start living with it comfortably,” she said. “It requires a lot of time and patience. It might even take a couple of years for you to begin to fully enjoy your life with it.”

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In the wild, sables inhabit dense forests dominated by spruce, pine, larch, cedar, and birch in both lowland and mountainous terrain. Their home territories range from 4 to 30 square kilometers (1.5 to 11.6 sq mi) in size, depending on local terrain and food availability. However, when resources become scarce, they may move considerable distances in search of a bite, from 6 to 12 kilometers (3.7 to 7.5 mi) per day.

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Sables live in burrows near riverbanks and in the thickest corners of woods. They are good climbers of cliffs and trees and primarily hunt during the hours of twilight, but become more active in the day during the mating season.

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Rain-harvesting panels would let people in drought-stricken cities catch their own water

Designer Shaakira Jassat has created a rain-catcher that is slim enough to fit on the outside of buildings in dense urban environments.

The Aquatecture panel is designed to collect rainwater as it trickles over the openings in the structure before pumping it into a building's grey-water system.

Jassat, who is the founder of Studio Sway, was inspired to create the panel after observing drought conditions in her native country of South Africa. She said that people in cities like Cape Town and Pretoria had lived in fear of Day Zero – the day the taps would be shut off.

Photo by Ronald Smits

The designer, who is now based in the Netherlands, noted that while water-harvesting equipment such as rainwater tanks were a familiar presence in rural environments, that is generally not the case in cities, where space is at a premium.

Her design would allow urban residents to sustain their own needs by channelling rainwater into the building's grey-water system, where it can be recycled along with the waste water from sinks, washing machines and other appliances.

"The main goal was to create a water harvester that would fit in dense urban spheres through its compactness, visual identity and ability to integrate into architecture," Jassat told Dezeen.

Photo by Angeline Swinkels

While the primary purpose of the panels is to catch rainwater, Jassat says that, if hooked up to other equipment, they could potentially also pull water from the atmosphere via condensation.

The panels are made of stainless steel, chosen for its durability and rust resistance. They are studded with perforations in a slim, rounded funnel shape, which Jassat settled on after testing several potential patterns.

Photo by Angeline Swinkels

She came up with patterns ranging from circles to fan-like shapes in collaboration with Japanese graphic designer Aya Kawasaki and tested them by making prototypes and showering them with water to simulate rain.

She selected the most efficient design and modified it until she was "satisfied with the combined efficiency and aesthetics".

Photo by Shaakira Jassat

Jassat's next step will be to test the design in situ on a building facade. She has also recently conducted research into "air plants" (the tillandsia and bromeliad species), which draw all their water needs from the air.

Jassat is interested in "how architecture can evolve to embrace water as we enter the Symbiocene era". The Symbiocene is posited as an aspirational new era to follow the Anthropocene, with humans living more symbiotically with nature.

Jassat exhibited Aquatecture alongside the air plants research at Dutch Design Week. A 2019 graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven, she has started her own practice called Studio Sway.

Other recent water-harvesting innovations include WEDEW's system for drawing drinking water from the air and Italian architect Arturo Vittori's wooden Warka Water structures.

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