A tattoo artist painted a mural with the blood of his clients and became viral

April 14, 2019

It took the young Colombian more than two months to complete this work and, even though he thought it would not be well received, many neighbors offered to donate their blood for the next murals.

In the north of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, a young tattooist took the initiative to occur a large mural of three square meters made with blood, tattoo ink and acrylic paint protection. This work has been baptized as "2D Blood Mural"and it's not the first time he's done it.

More than two months of work were needed for the Colombian tattoo artist Julián Castillo finish your work of art. This mural contains two and a half liters of blood, which were donated by 12 donors: Julian's customers, friends, relatives and the artist himself.

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It was located in an educational center of the region and Castle explained in an interview with the Colombian media RCN Radio how this project came about: "The idea came to the Universidad del Valle de Cali, in the midst of student demonstrations, where I did a similar job but did not last long, so we created this news, "said the young man.

In the same way, Julián Castillo revealed that the mural was intended to convey that there was no more blood shed from the innocent and that a society "freed from oppression and l & # 39; "Injustice" was being reborn.

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"At first, I thought people would react badly about work, use the blood as a material, but the mural had a great acceptanceso much so that people offered to donate blood to make other murals, "said the tattoo artist.

In turn, he explained that in order for the painting to remain intact for at least ten years, he had to use blood, ink for tattoos and acrylic paint protection. Like this, Castle He became the first muralist to use blood as a material for his artistic work, an achievement that was included in the list of Guinness Record.