Awesome 3ftX2ft Signed Sci Fi Painting Tattoo Outsider Surreal Cartoon Pop Art
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I walked into the waiting room of Monkey Bone, an excellent tattoo parlor in Dayton, and my jaw dropped when I spied this amazing work of art! I had a flash back to a sci fi short story I read decades ago, where cat-like aliens orbited the earth and used a tractor ray to pull the moon closer to the earth. This resulted in mile high ocean waves and 9 and 10 point earthquakes! I thought the artist must have read the same story. Wrong! Turns out the story behind the painting is much more personal to the artist, whose name is Coffee.Coffee was one of the several tattoo artists working in the busy parlor. I spoke with him and asked him to talk about the painting. He said the title was"Cat in the Box" and that he tried to paint the cat as sinister as he could. He then told me that he usually puts certain images in all of his work. For example he always puts a coffee cup, for his name. He aways has the little shy stuff toy man, the fish in the leaky bag, and corn because he's from Ohio! (The explosion on the moon represents the corn.) He added the space ship and alien, the Illuminati Cult hat, and the waves and buildings, to make it more interesting. Oh, yes, and the RED box is sitting on a magazine entitled Monkey Bone, which is the name of the tattoo parlor.The composition is well balanced and the sinister BLACK cat seems to jump out
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