“We’re the flowers in the dustbin,” said Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols.

This is the phrase that comes to mind when I look at the tattoos of Lena Lu, a Russian artist who stands out for her creations that combine botanical and insect illustrations with modern objects such as jeeps, soda cans, and crumpled envelopes. This strident dissonance present in her subjects represents with poetry the beauty of human nature: we are made of contradictions and contrasts, but also of beauty and feelings. We are immediately reminded of another artist of whom we have previously spoken here, Maison Hefner, who reads you inside.

There is something veiled melancholy that blends with the objects related to the life of all groups and comes out something unusual and special: even from the pain can be born something good. Everything becomes immediately important, especially small things or those that we do not care about, such as a can or pieces of insulating tape: these objects have turned into something new.

The realism of the images and the finishing touches of the details go to make up the works of art to be kept on their own skin and perhaps even beyond. Find everything on Lena’s Instagram page.