Spent the past few hours mining through Miya Baileys’ blog. He’s a really dope artist from Atlanta by way of Asheville, NC. Co-owner of City of Ink tattoo shop. He contacted me a while back about altering 2 coats for his September tattooing trip to London. He knew of my work via one of his tattoo artists Chris aka The Love Crusader (1/4 of Hollyweerd). That reminds me, I never did a post about that, but I digress….
So the trip is coming up and I wanted to do something dope for the lining because I have the ability to but just because you can doesn’t mean you should. He’s a pretty chill guy (if you consider a borderline insomniac that produces art, films, books like a maniac “chill”) so I feel the coats should be low key and compliment him not overshadow him (like that could ever be possible… but, you know what I mean.)
When he first told me about his tattoo trip to London it was the first time I had really hung out with him and we spent some time chatting and seeing his works in his studio and my immediate thought was to have his work in the coat so it can be with him for him to display on occasion. But, after spending more time with him and going through the blog I’m rethinking all that. He’s a story teller so he will promote his own work regardless of what I put in there. Instead I should just focus on the quiet strength and power that comes from working with amazing fabrics and beautiful colors.
But then I think of the smile on his face when I told him I wanted to put his art in there and how he said that would be dope. And that’s what I want, for my work to put a smile on the clients face every time they wear a piece I’ve made or work on.
**UPDATE** Just stepped away from this and went back to his blog and found this post which helped answer my question of what to do for the lining:
The reason I walk…
A lot of people [tell] me “Miya, everytime I see you, your walking by yourself” that’s because I walk for a reason…it’s because I’m never in a rush unless I’m tryin to go see a movie or [catch] a flight out of town…I rarely get alone time so this is the perfect way to enjoy “peace of mind” and think of some new art ideas…and [I] really enjoy not hearing other peoples voices….people miss so much of the small things driving… Maybe it’s just my Asheville hippie side but I want to feel the sun… I want to feel the cold.. I want to enjoy each of the Earth’s seasons…
Check out some of his works:
