Westerstede / North Germany. In Bremen,
“I became independent in 1994 and then my professional life since then called Tatau Obscur, the livelong day Tatau Obscur.”
“I think I’m a design meniac, a creative workaholik, everything I want to make. Rooms, furniture, clothes, art and jewelery, tattoos, food, gardens. The most beautiful is the homemade world to me. I see this as a political statement, as the only way of self-assertion in this trained to waste in wretchedness reality.”
“The so-called Marx cheapening of objects makes only the lucky who can make this cheaper. All the other people we have given the frustration and futility. However I’m interested in the precious, the connected with doing. The creative action is the only freedom in the face of consumerist juggernaut and the only honest connection to all people.”
“I love tattooing especially because it gives me the opportunity to merge amoeba like me for a moment with another human being, to be part of another organism and to make these. The exchange is direct and clear. We then separate again and everything is beautiful to us because we have done something nice together. That’s sex, is not it?”
“I would love to tattoo clearly more political motives. The identification of swastika tattoo = political course I do not mean it. I am interested in collagen by John Heartfield, the wonderful graphics Soviet posters, painting Matta and Gothic Piety as a means of personal expression of protest against capitalist forced brainwashing, environmental exploitation and methodical destruction of intact forms of life in favor of the sale of sneakers or strawberry flavors.”
“I would have liked even tattooed a hand grenade into the palm of the hand. This would this need very close and also I like to give to. And how the future will look like I know already. Tatau Obscur.”