Skin souls
Silva Usta is human, in smiles, enthusiasm, attention to other. His openness shoot it two years ago to be interested in a yet very remote area of his own work, the tattoo. She notices and looks at the phenomenon of tattoo, democratized and affecting all strata of the population.
She embarks on a project that will make naturally engage with others. Silva dared go to meet people she meets tattooed, observes and addresses with ease. It will look, beyond the image, the history of these drawings and paintings of skin.
Instinct and humanity do the rest : Silva has the ability to put people in confidence and it will easily collect their testimonies, often intimate, the purpose of these tattoos.
On the occasion of a posing session workshop, where she takes pictures of the tattoo, and where she "customaise" in his own way, it comes into contact with each person who agrees to participate in the project, fourteen in total, all of which will easily deliver to contact Silva.
Anecdotal evidence reveals deep stories and anchored, each of which expresses a tattooing step, suffering, exceeded. It is in any case for each one means of expression, affirmation or outlet.
The strength of this project lies in its evidence : have been able to call on these images engraved on the skin and to focus on their basis.
The strength of Usta Silva is to be reached to identify the experiences behind the image and create such a degree of intimacy, immediate and natural, with people previously unknown to most, to whom she has given speech.
They seemed to wait for it.
Nicola Marie
