Friends, comrades, fellow wayward saints, welcome at last to BLNDSGHT- a compendium of my artwork meticulously compiled under an idiosyncratic banner. This site is a labyrinth, composed with looping passages, dead end hallways and trapdoors, filled with hidden riddles for your discovery and bewilderment. It’s a funhouse of mirrors where you will unearth a gallery of curiosities around every corner. The expansive repertoire of artistic media herein represents two decades of relentless labor. By no means comprehensive, it is rather a select presentation of highlights from my formative years through today. I insatiably pursue a passion in diverse disciplines: painting, drawing, collage, graffiti, street art, assemblage, installation, performance, and miscellaneous oddities. Aside the exhaustive and exhausting seventeen-year tattoo yield, all else has come in isolated bursts of precious and limited duration. What you will find is the culmination of prodigiously inventive artisanal craft that cannot stop manifesting the arena of the visual. The muses have seduced me. The songs of the siren have lured me in. I live and breathe art. It pumps through my blood as rivers to the sea. It is all that I am, and all I shall ever be. So without further ado, I hope you enjoy your visit through these winding corridors of my imagination. Or, I say, my BLNDSGHT. When you have taken in much of the show, the only way to properly exit is not to the left, not to the right, but into the heart and soul of this coil, through my recently created poem entitled, “ocean of twine.” That is, of course, if you’re clever enough to find it.

With utmost anticipation,

Watson Atkinson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEVEN STEPS TO ILLUMINATED TRANSFORMATION

THE VENTURESOME FIRST STEP: MEDITATE, LEVITATE, UNRAVEL. THEN TURN TOWARDS BLNDSGHT WHERE THE TWO KEYS CROSS, THE TOP CENTER ARROW YOUR ENTRÉE.

STEP TWO. WITNESS THE CURIOUS, IDIOSYNCRATIC, MAGNIFICIENT BLNDSGHT OF WATSON ATKINSON. DELIGHT IN A COMPENDIUM OF PROLIFIC BRAINSTORMS, INNOVATIVE ODDMENTS & TATTOO.

STEP THREE, VERY IMPORTANT. CONSIDER YOUR SKIN’S INFINITE POTENTIAL. FANCY YOUR MOST CREATIVE, PROGRESSIVE, EXQUISITELY ORNAMENTED TATTOO. THIS VISION MAY ARRIVE IN A FLASH, OR, MAY TAKE HOURS, DAYS, MONTHS.

BEING YOUR TATTOO IDEA HAS BLOSSOMED, THE FOURTH STEP: SURRENDER TO FATE. TRANSCEND, TRANSFORM, ILLUMINATE. TRUST YOURSELF. TRUST WATSON. SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT AT TRUSTWATSON.COM.

STEP FIVE, A PRIVATE ONE-HOUR CONSULTATION, CONCLUDING WITH MONETARY DEPOSIT, PROJECT ESTIMATE, INITIAL TATTOO SESSION SCHEDULED. OUT-OF-STATE & INTERNATIONAL SEEKERS, SEE TRUSTWATSON.COM FOR PORTLAND ACCOMMODATION SUGGESTIONS. (TOO, WATSON’S GYPSY JAUNTS BRING HIM FROM MAINE TO GEORGIA, EASTWARD OF APPALACHIA. LET HIM KNOW IF YOUR TOWN’D BE A GOOD FIT.)

STEP SIX WILL BE A TEST OF YOUR PATIENCE. WATSON IS UNCOMMONLY BUSY & USUALLY BOOKED OUT A FEW MONTHS IN ADVANCE. YET YOUR SESSION WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN.

FINALLY THE EMPOWERING AND LIBERATING SEVENTH STEP WILL UNFOLD. THE WAIT WILL END. WHETHER YOU ACQUIRE A ONE-SESSION PIECE, OR ENGAGE A HUGE TATTOO PROJECT REALIZED OVER MONTHS OR YEARS, YOUR VISION WILL BE FULFILLED, YOUR ILLUMINATED TRANSFORMATION COMPLETE.