As If

Sooz: Y'know, just lots of dots, really. Like Seurat, y'know? Georges Seurat? Sooz is clumsily and rather bashfully explaining to Serge, a French guy she's just met at a party, that the tattoo on her arm, which he's admiring, is made up from thousands of small dots of ink pushed under the surface of her skin by a needle. In this way a tattoo, she suggests, is similar to the work of French Neo-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat (1859-1891) whose technique involved using many tiny brush strokes of contrasting colour too small to be seen individually but when viewed from a distance made his paintings seem to shimmer with brilliance. The technique is known as divisionism or pointillism.