Breanna Shawley

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

It was a touch up of the tattoo my dad and I did. I want my next tattoo to be of one of my dads drawings that I had to recreate from the damaged original he had sketched on his drink tumbler, but I want ink infused with his ashes. My dad was born at Camp Lejeune and passed away from liver failure. I didn’t get to meet him until I was 18 and he died when I was 28… I wish I could have had more time with him, meeting him helped me learn things about myself that I never understood why

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

There’s always room for improvement, be a better you than you were yesterday. Have empathy for others because we are all just trying to survive and thrive. You’re allowed to take up space. Most battles are not seen, but that doesn’t make them any less of a battle, more often than not the hardest battles are the ones that go unseen and we don’t talk about. Be the reason others have hope for humanity.

What would you do with the $25,000?

Buy a used vehicle, pay off the bill for my dads cremation and have some of his ashes incorporated into a glass hand pipe so I can smoke a bowl with dad every time, have an urn that looks like an acorn made for him, buy the photography equipment I need for my passion to pay my way through life and to restore the hundreds of water damaged family photos that I’m currently ill equipped to work on at the moment.