Heather Lynn

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My sister and I got matching faeries that were based on a tattoo our late mother had. She had a collection of faerie tattoos, not the sweet kind from Disney movies but the trickster ones that might lure you to your death. She passed away a year ago and I am happy to carry on her tradition of faerie tattoos. And I know she would be so excited to be mentioned in Inked Magazine.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

It would tell Polish folk tales, myths of feminine archetypes-everyone from Kali to Medusa to the women Patrick Nagel illustrated, inside jokes and eternal myths, mistakes still visible under their cover ups celebrating the sacred and irreverent existing side by side and together creating something beautiful beyond the sum of their parts.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would pay off some debt, give some to mutual aid, and if there was anything left I might put it towards my 8 day hike thru Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula that I’m planning to go on next year. And of course I’d need to get a celebratory tattoo!