What a curious pleasure it would be to spot a slick of gold on someone’s ear…or face or…
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Tattoos As Self Reclamation
As a tattoo artist I witness the myriad reasons and kinds of people who get tattooed. I have tattooed a mourning 64-year-old-man transforming his grief, a Hasidic jew wanting to secretly express himself, a young cancer survivor during his post chemo celebration. Memorials, achievements, jokes and dares, even the most controversial of all — pure aesthetics —…
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A Drawing Pad You Carry with Your Everywhere: Your Hand
Our friend Isabel Rower can’t NOT draw on things, and her favorite seems to be her hand. We’ve seen (and posted) all sorts of drawings Issy’s made on her hands. She treats them like an instant pad, always available for drawings or taking notes.
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tattoo’d words of wisdom + hope
We are big fans of tattoos — permanent or impermanent — as a tool for living, and have posted quite a bit about them: to-do lists, uplifting signs, reminders of one sort or another. We recently tweeted about an 81 year-old woman who tattooed “Do Not Resuscitate” on her chest, so concerned was she about…
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artful body painting with mud and a bottle
We found this startling image on Roy Arden’s blog…as usual, no provenance. Oh, but the beauty you can create with some mud and a (Coke) bottle…like this curiously chic, modernist pattern stenciled right on. (We love the idea of our bodies as a canvas). Related posts: body as artist’s canvas “why doesn’t everybody paint their…
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