{"id":10022,"date":"2020-12-21T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/?p=10022"},"modified":"2022-09-20T16:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:09:38","slug":"process-rio-sipos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/process-rio-sipos\/","title":{"rendered":"Process: Rio Sipos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Studio<\/h3>\n
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Courtesy of Rio Sipos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is my workspace, where I draw and sketch out ideas. I like having lots of past work pinned up to motivate and inspire me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bigboy Zine<\/h3>\n
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Courtesy of Rio Sipos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bigboy<\/span><\/a> has been my sweet friend and a big inspiration for me both artistically and personally for the past few years. The way they use colour in their work has definitely pushed me to experiment with colour in tattooing and drawing. And also their way of being silly, but at the same time very sincere and genuine, is something that is very close to my heart. This is a page from a zine they made, and I also have the same sentence screen printed on a sweater they made for me. <\/span><\/p>\n

Krause Tattoo Long Sleeve<\/h3>\n
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Courtesy of Rio Sipos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anny<\/span><\/a> has been my studiomate and friend for a while now. They hand dyed and screen printed this shirt themselves, and seeing all the amazing clothing they have been making the past years definitely inspired me to start thinking about designing clothes myself, and to start to think about my drawings in the context of putting them on garments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tato Coco Painting<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Courtesy of Rio Sipos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Coco\u2019s<\/span><\/a> work has been such a huge inspiration for me, for much longer than I even knew them personally. Their ability to find the humour in weird, hyperspecific everyday details, that are simultaneously funny and heartbreaking, is something I really aspire to. <\/span><\/p>\n

Polaroids<\/h3>\n
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Courtesy of Rio Sipos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These are my friends (from left to right: Anny, Yeda, me, Bean the dog and Koala), they are all amazing tattoo artists who\u2019ve helped shape who I am as an artist today. Looking at these pictures of the times when community was built through art and tattooing is very precious to me, and keeps me going in these weird Covid times when I can feel so isolated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carson Foyle Zine<\/h3>\n
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Courtesy of Rio Sipos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carson<\/span><\/a> is one of my favourite artists of all time, which some people find surprising as our styles are so different. But the way his brain works, and how he constantly pushes the boundaries of what tattooing can be inspires me a lot. <\/span><\/p>\n

My Tattoos<\/h3>\n
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Courtesy of Rio Sipos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got this tattoo from my friend Eva (mostly known as <\/span>Rita Salt<\/span><\/a>), who is a true genius. Her way of tattooing really showed me that there are no limits to what a tattoo can be. <\/span><\/p>\n

Consent Zine<\/h3>\n
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Courtesy of Rio Sipos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This zine from <\/span>Dudley<\/span><\/a> is really important, and something everyone should read. Consent in tattooing is such an important topic and reading about consent in a queer context was very helpful for me. Also their art is super cute!<\/span><\/p>\n

Plants<\/h3>\n
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Courtesy of Rio Sipos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I surround myself with plants both at my home and in the studio, they make me feel so at home.  <\/span>I used to draw lots of plants, they were one of my main subject matters, and even though that is not the case anymore, I think the way I draw and how I\u2019m trying to make my lines dynamic is still inspired by plants a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read More: Process: Julim Rosa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rio Sipos, aka i am baby king, is as well known for their distinctive hand poke tattoos as they are for cofounding queer Berlin tattoo collective Fantasy along with six of their friends. Made up of Rio, Yeda, Rozita, Anny, Theo, Coco, and Aron, Fantasy was born out of the crew\u2019s dissatisfaction with Berlin\u2019s conventional tattoo studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":10044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10022"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12981,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022\/revisions\/12981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}