An uber tattooed man, Geoff Ostling, will have his skin hang in the national gallery of Australia after he dies.
The piece of walking art, Geoff Ostling, an expert in all things tattoo, will one day soon be a piece of dead mans skin art, Aussie media said.
The overweight 65-year-old history teacher, Geoff Ostling said he will donate his entire epidermis in the name of art after he is gone because he wanted to do something unique to be remembered by.
The amazing all over body tattoo was created over 15 years with the help of cult Australian tattoo artist eX de Merci. The Geoff Ostling tattoo masterpiece features amazing depictions of flowers all over Geoff Ostling's body, from neck to ankle, with the theme "All the flowers of a Sydney garden".
Picture: Geoff Ostling and his future art gallery skin...tatts cover Geoff Ostling in a work showing all the flowers in a garden, over 30-years.So much of Geoff Ostling's body is covered in flower tattoos, there is even a bunch of roses in his arm pit.
“It’s so they will always smell of roses,” Geoff Ostling joked to reporters.
The idea for Geoff Ostling's skin art and future exhibit in a Canberra national Australian museum started back in the 1970's.
The idea Geoff Ostling said, started after a chance meeting 30 plus years ago. Geoff Ostling said he was inspired when he met with a fully tattooed man.
“In the 1970s, I met someone" with a full body of tattoo's, Geoff Ostling said.
The man, Geoff Ostling said, was a company business manager who always had to cover up his tats. Geoff Ostling said that the man had a full body suit of tattoos based on Greek and Roman mythology.
Having a full body of tattoo's, Geoff Ostling said, can be hard work to care for. Geoff Ostling said the key to keeping the tattoo art work in mint condition was to moisturise the tattoo art with extra virgin olive oil body cream every few days.
Another Geoff Ostling move to protect his future museum skin tattoo piece is to stay out of the midday sun.
“The greatest enemy of the tattoo is the sun as with paintings and photos, so we tend to go to the beach in the late afternoon,” he said.
When he finally passes away, Geoff Ostling plans to donate his skin to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
“This is something that has never been done in a Western country before. It would be no different to seeing a photograph.”
The tale of Geoff Ostling’s tattoo skin was the subject of a documentary series called Anatomy. Geoff Ostling featured in the documentaries shown at various film festivals around the world, including at the Tribeca film festival in New York.
An excited Geoff Ostling said he believed his tattoo skin as an art gallery feature would be a world first.
"It has never been done as a whole body before and not in a gallery," Geoff Ostling said.
"People can be squeamish about it. Portraits painted on human skin hang in galleries around the world. They don't tell you that, of course, and valuable books were also covered in human skin."
A skin expert who talked to Australian media about the Geoff Ostling skin art tattoo experiment said removing the skin of a dead Geoff Ostling would be a delicate process, but no different to the skinning of an animal. Brilliant mental visual is it not?
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