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Love him or hate him, Brandon Bond is one of the hottest players on the tattoo scene today. The pater familias of two studios in Northwest Atlanta, All Or Nothing Tattoo and the newly opened private studio A.N.T.I. Art Elite, Brandon has recently expanded his rapidly growing art empire by opening Stranglehold Merchandise ( www.strangleholdmerch.com ), which offers a collection of books, shirts, tattoo chairs, original paintings, sketch books, framed prints, tattoo equipment, armrests, stickers, collaboration tables, and other high quality tattoo gear. His new book Whore is the first publication. He tells us, I wanted to make something that was real, something hard to read from an emotional perspective, and honest. The culmination of his two years work on the project is an art book unlike any other, and it shows us a side of the artist that we seldom see in his public persona.
The book is novel in its structure and composition. There are moments of stark clarity, particularly in the excerpts from interviews with Sean Herman and Coral Pollack, members of the All Or Nothing family. Other sections break apart from the narrative that begins to emerge in the interviews; there are flashes of stories from Bonds life with images of whores and fights, tattoos and money, guns and drugs. Some parts, especially as the book nears its conclusion, feel like compilations of memorable Brandon Bond quotes, revealing random thoughts on life, women, violence, art, and vulnerability. The movement from the coherent to the chaotic meshes with the artwork, which roams from line drawings to tattoos, photographs to computer graphics. The words and the art form a collage that works to convey the conflicted, passionate tone of the mind of the author.
In the excerpts from the Herman and Pollack interviews, Brandon shares more information about his personal life than ever before. While he admits to being a shameless self-promoter, the barrage of publicity focuses strictly on his work, and Whore is the first time we get a glimpse at the man behind the art. When asked about this intimate portrayal of his personal life, Brandon tells us, I have always kept my private life very private, and I feel like that was probably a good decision, but his endeavor to say something new in Whore led him finally to reveal what he calls the deeply personal and fucked up things we see in the book.
One of the most important relationships he describes in the book is his bond with his father. Brandon writes in Whore, I respect him more than anyone on Earth is direct, aggressive, wealthy, driven, focused, successful, intimidating, overbearing, loving, compassionate, and always on the move. These words could also describe the Brandon Bond we know today, but he writes, I was a loser, a stoner, an arrogant little f*** when I was a kid. Brandon credits his fathers intervention and influence with helping him to grow beyond his unruly youth, and the book portrays the process of maturity he passed through to become the motivated artist and businessman he is today.
In Whore, Brandon describes himself as a person who has always been either loved or loathed, saying, I stick out like a turd in a punchbowl. He says that much of the flack he has gotten comes from his barrage of publicity of his All Or Nothing family's work, but he justifies his media saturation as smart business, writing, If no one knows you're good, then what f*****g good is it?
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