Amanda Wachob

Wachob has tattooed oranges in this artwork series and then photographed them and printed them as a Type C Print, which means ‘colour print.’

Wachob is both a practicing contemporary artist and also a tattooist. In tattooing fruits, she references the training techniques used by aspiring tattoo artists, whereby they practise tattooing on pieces of fruit and cuts of meat, particularly pig with the skin still attached, before moving on to tattooing people.

Some fruits (and meat) have similar qualities to human skin, and like our skin, they age and deteriorate. In this series, Wachob defies the ageing process by incorporating another medium: photography. In doing so, she juxtaposes the impermanence of the tattooed fruit, which will soon rot, with the frozen moment in time captured by the photograph that will never change.

In the three outlines on the opposite page, use each line style previously learned (stippling, hatching and cross-hatching) to draw and shade the oranges.