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The most recent research into the art of tattooing began

Oct. 4, 2018 by Carolyn Mueller

The most recent research into the art of tattooing began in 1992, with an effort by the Colorado Museum of Art to document the history of tattooing. The museum wanted to document the origins and evolution of tattooing in a way that could help bring the art to the West and provide accurate answers to questions like what the origin of the "art of tattooing" was.

The museum partnered with a number of artists, using the help of a team of international artists such as Chris Walker, who also traveled the world to the Middle East to create the tattoo design.

"We've been able to get people to the Middle East and to try our hand at some of the most challenging tattooing styles ever conceived," Walker says. "We've shown them that some of the best artists of the 21st century were from the Middle East, and that this is where we got all the answers to those questions we were asking."

For the past few years, the artist-led team at the museum has been doing a lot of research into the history of tattooing, with a focus on how tattoos came into being. Walker and his team began by taking a look at the history of tattooing in the United States, and then working together to bring the art to the West.

"When we looked at the artists who had been working with us before, it was more about the type of tattoos they were working with," Walker says. "We saw that in a way that tattoos didn't have to be made from wood. They had to have a specific type of tattoo."

To start, the artist-led team had to draw a map of the United States, and that's where Walker found many of the artists that had been collaborating with him, including a few that were also from the Middle East.

Once the artist was able to get some ink samples, he was able to make out their faces and their tattoos.

"We were able to see how people were using tattoos and how that was connected to each other," Walker says. "We started to look at where that had come from. We were able to see what the artists had been doing with their ideas in that way. We found that some of the artists from the Middle East were very influential and very important to people in the Middle East. And we found that a lot of it was based on the people in the Middle East, and that's what we started to look at here." Walker and his team went back to the Middle East and found out about the art of