Cowgirls, bikini models and masked Mexican wrestlers: Dr. Lakra tattoos them all!
Lakra is a tattoo artist in Mexico City, but he displays his work using an interesting technique: he rips out pages from 50's Mexican magazines, takes a Bic, and begins drawing on the models' skin. Snakes twine across arms in thick violet ink; demons stare from the bare midriffs of luscious Mexican babes.
What's it all mean to Dr. Lakra? "Like pertinent graffiti, the relative innocence of another era is politicised and the images are infused with a relish for the diabolical. Beautification or social identification, the works are a carnival of the grotesque. Kitschy erotica, ancient ritual, and hallucinogenic visions are fused in a collage of ideologies."
