Here I Am, Send Me

Taylor's collector was a military medic, and the whole chest is built around the verse he came in with. Isaiah 6:8 runs across the pec: then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, who shall I send? And I said, here I am, send me. Saint Michael drives a spear down from the collarbone with Taylor's signature peppery dotwork in a starburst radiating off his shoulder, and the spear lands on a chained demon crouched lower on the chest. Under all of it Taylor tattoos his actual kit, a helmet, an aid bag with the cross on it and a rifle laid flat, rendered as a photograph with a hard rectangular border. That border is the choice worth noticing, it stops the gear from floating in with the angel and marks it as the real part. By Taylor Phelps.

By Taylor Phelps at Eden Body Art Studios.

Styles: Realism, Designer.