Dietrich Wegner Unique Babies

Artist Dietrich Wegner released a series of sculptures depicting rubber babies donning enough tattoos to deem them worthy of joining biker gang. This time around, Dietrich Wegner is at it again; except this time, the babies are real.

Mr. Dietrich Wegner states : “...babies are covered in multicolored tattoos in a meditation on how our identities evolve and how we declare them.”

As a follow up to the rubber sculptures, artist Dietrich Wegner has shot a series of photographs with real branded babies. Though the infants are real, the tattoos are not.  Some of his work shows us how a mushroom cloud can resemble a tree house, an anus a vortex, a suicide bomber a vulnerable human being, all in an effort to explore our varied states of contentment and security.

From his website: "Every society accumulates contradictions amidst their ideals. Dietrich Wegner employs those contradictions, situating opposites together in sculpture and photography that feed on the friction between two conflicting ideas. When an image stands in limbo, between associations, it occupies a flexible place in our mind. Wegner creates images that are safe and unsettling, abject and beautiful. Some of his work shows us how a mushroom cloud can resemble a tree house, an anus a vortex, a suicide bomber a vulnerable human being, all in an effort to explore our varied states of contentment and security. In other works, such as in Cumulous Brand, babies are covered in multicolored tattoos in a meditation on how our identities evolve and how we declare them."