Photo: Prof. S. Nanche-Krogh

At the end of bronze age people often exposed tattoos in Northern Europe. Archeological finds of well preserved bodies of people from that age often show striking ideographic signs on their naked skin.
The very limited finds of clothing, from this and older times, show the same richness in pictogrammatical tellings from the inner worlds of these people, carrying around visual foci for their thoughts - signs of Gods, signs of Nature, signs of Power.
To forget the signs was to loose contact with life itself, or becoming an easy victim for intruding, dangerous ideas - i.e. secteristic madness, with no base whatsoever in reality.
Conscious of the dangers of forgetting, people carried the important knowledge upon themselves.
Europe have changed in three millenniums, but tattooing and piercing is back again.
When you almost has forgotten who you are, circles are closed.

Tomas Brusell
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