The first collaboration between tattooist and illustrator Loren Fetterman and performance artist Stefanie Elrick. Merging tattooing, body art, poetry, calligraphy and photography in a dynamic new piece of work.
If I could talk with the stars
I’d tell them about you
How we danced to their light
Whispering to the moon
And then they’d tell me
We saw you dancing too
Shimmering, gliding in the night
Your music ended too soon
If I could lie among the clouds
I’d lie there with you
And we’d sleep through the night
Never worrying what was soon
And when we’d wake up
We’d not know what was true
But dreaming the same dream
Come night, we’ll dance to our tune.
Can the wings of the winds hear your voices of wonder? Feel the dark tracings to the ends of the earth. Understand the meaning of my nature and deliver me from the jaws of death. A beautiful fluency in your secrets, a lake to drown, a sea of sounds, the great oak falls with no one around.
Enflamed and soul elated, you’ve passed into the fog.
I cannot refuse you.
Lyrics to Bisonhammers song ‘King Of Sleep’
Who did this to you, and left you blind?
Did they deceive you, and leave you behind?
A fitful vision of love in bloom, at night this ghost slips in your room
Cut down the tree that bears rotten fruit, I hold my tongue and bite just for you
This dark night takes hold, tears strike the floor, why do my dreams feel like a war?
I’ve run out of reasons to turn back, the time is right now, I’m right on track
I draw you closer with all my will, if I can’t have you no-one will
With the ounce of strength that I have left, I’ll destroy this spectre with each dreaming breath. I’ll learn to sleep in this bed I’ve made, from my dreams your face will fade away
She moves so gracefully & bleeds just like me
She moves so gracefully & bleeds just like me
I’ve become your enemy, I was once your lover
You break down the walls, you break them down
Break the walls down and leave your side
Sacrifice your dreams
The crisp sheets are hands that hold you, the king of sleep, the man that sold you
To your sanctuary, your place within
To your unlocked doors they come unbidden
They come into your room at night, in your mind they spill surprises
Unfurl their cinematic wings, take flight to haunt and guide us
They sow the seeds of contemplation, they are the box you can’t escape from
Why can’t I be alone?
I knew it never could turn out the way we had planned it
The love she had for me was taken for granted
I can’t dream without you being there. Do you dream of me?
Outside in the Sunshine.
It’s cold, without your touch.
Shivers shatter low in my stomach.
Pining for your eyes, with too many hunger tears aborted.
Over and over.
Yoyo back to me, I’ll breathe you in.
Through every pore, into every cell.
Deep within.
Inside the inside of the tiniest idea of me.
I’ll hold you.
With a thousand embracing arms.
Protecting you from the dark. Matters.
A tiny turquoise moth adored.
Light in my hands.
Among paper stars.
Forever.
Written in Skin 