The millennia-old cold case of Ötzi the Iceman has captivated professionals and the public alike, giving a museum in Bolzano, Italy, quite the showpiece with which to draw visitors.
Elaine Cameron-Weir is a Canadian artist based in New York. Her work is informed by the systems of belief and power humans have created to deal with the unknown. Her recent solo museum exhibitions include “Dressing for Windows (Exploded View),” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia (2022), and “STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH,” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2021). Her work has also been featured in major group exhibitions such as the Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale (2022) and “New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century,” University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2021).
The 2016 study suggests that tattoos are a long-standing and widespread cultural practice, with different means of permanently inserting pigments beneath the skin. The techniques include hand poking or tapping with the use of a single-point tool that may or may not have a handle; incision; and subdermal tattooing, or skin stitching, using a needle to thread an ink-soaked filament or sinew.
Ötzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old body was found by hikers in the Tyrolean Alps, has 61 tattoos. Scientists now think they understand the technique behind them.
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