Tattoos

[softgrey]

yes
more onsen will be accepting tattoos though.

OK...

no tattoo for me...
at least not for now...

 

[runner]

part of "the five senses" by michel serres is a beautiful essay on tattoos.

"I touch one of my lips with my middle finger. consciousness resides in this contact."

"now determine where the soul is, by placing one part of your body on another."

"I bear on my skin the tracks and paths traced by the women who have helped me in the search for my scatterd soul."

for serres, tattooing is drawing a soul map.


tattoo you



rockartcollection

 

[softgrey]

drawing a soul map is interesting...

i confess that one lonely tattoo doesn't seem to appeal to me...
i might as well just stamp something on my skin...

doing a much broader design seems attractive - in concept and visually speaking- but that requires a lot of commitment and thought and $$ and tolerance for pain which is even less appealing...

Then i started thinking about sort of drawing "jewelry"...
like just a black band around my wrist or my ankle or my upper arm...

Thanks for that perspective, runner...
certainly something to think about...

i will say that i never found that rolling stones cover appealing when I was younger but i am surprisingly drawn to it now...
i guess i am more open to the idea of tattoos now...

 

[eugenius]

Looking at a certain somebody's career now...I'm very happy I never followed through w/ that "TRUE BLUE" tattoo on my knuckles.

 

[runner]

drawing a soul map is interesting...

i confess that one lonely tattoo doesn't seem to appeal to me...
i might as well just stamp something on my skin...

doing a much broader design seems attractive - in concept and visually speaking- but that requires a lot of commitment and thought and $$ and tolerance for pain which is even less appealing...

Then i started thinking about sort of drawing "jewelry"...
like just a black band around my wrist or my ankle or my upper arm...

Thanks for that perspective, runner...
certainly something to think about...

i will say that i never found that rolling stones cover appealing when I was younger but i am surprisingly drawn to it now...
i guess i am more open to the idea of tattoos now...

to tell the truth, the cover interested me so much somehow that I replicated it with fidelity by hand when I was 15 years old.

maybe if you find something that can only be spoken of by means of tattoos ?

here it works, charming in a way, because it's done with a marker. if it's a real tattoo, I'd say it's a fail.



upi

 

[runner]

anyway just came across this old-school tattoos print tote from limi




theshopyohjuyamamoto

 

[susseinmcswanny]

I could've sworn I posted in this thread ... ? I have been thinking about getting a bowie lightning bolt for a while (fight me) and I had the idea of doing it in a b/w Kansai motif, but I just realized... it could be giving SS ? ☹️😭