Adam and Will are joined by New York-based artist and tattooer Will Sheldon. Will discusses his work with us: paintings and drawings of fantastical and fairy tale imagery but with a uniquely troubling and dark iteration fitting for our times. Will is also a tattooer and in contra to others working between the art world and tattoo culture (others typically tend to make clear distinction between the craft of tattooing and high art OR end up making tattooish art work) manages to create a clear communicative language between art and tattoos. We discuss this idiosyncrasy, Will's recent exhibitions, Will's recent collaborative book with British writer Charlie Fox, Hans Bellmer, and a shared appreciation for manga artist and filmmaker Hideshi Hino and Charlie Sheen's issues with Hino. Enjoy.

SOUNDTRACK: 
Liquor Store "Pumpin with Red Rocks" https://youtu.be/l42-eD4aweA
New York Dolls "Personality Crisis" (live) https://youtu.be/Ctg5FCS1wCM
Dayblygu "Fanzine" https://youtu.be/fShBVsCW5AA
Anal Cunt "Grateful Dead" https://music.apple.com/us/album/grateful-dead/173507687?i=173507931
Psychedelic Speed Freaks "Redline" https://music.apple.com/us/album/redline/1456380327?i=1456380336

LINKS:
Will Sheldon at Instagram: @willsheldon https://www.instagram.com/willsheldon/?hl=en
Will Sheldon interview: https://autre.love/interviewsmain/2021/10/20/will-sheldon-my-small-super-star
Will Sheldon and Charlie Fox 'Zoe': https://americanartcatalogues.com/catalogue/zoe/
Charlie Sheen thought 'Guinea Pig' was snuff: https://screenrant.com/charlie-sheen-guinea-pig-2-snuff-film-police-japanese-horror/
Hideshi Hino: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jmgkgg/flowers-of-flesh-and-blood

Charlie Sheen's Trigger Threshold (w/ Will Sheldon)

"You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no Third Worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petrodollars, electro- dollars, multi-dollars, Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today."

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Charlie Sheen's Trigger Threshold (w/ Will Sheldon)

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