I got my first tattoo in 2017 (when I was 37.) My ink has played an integral role in me becoming the person I knew I was, but wasn’t before.
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My latest tattoo, based on a David Hockney painting called, “A Bigger Splash” covers up an early tattoo of mine that was based on a book that my kids and I loved to read when they were babies. When I got that one I was too intimidated to ask for exactly what I wanted. The more recent art holds the value of the previous ink, while incorporating our recent move across the country to LA, and the newer assertiveness I have acquired since then.
If your ink could speak, what would it say?Do things that make yourself happy without regard to what other people think. Life is temporal, my body is the canvas I have to love and adorn the way I want to. I never went in with a plan. My ink honors what is meaningful to me in the moment and expresses my love of the incredible art form. Starting later in life means that I have a better understanding of what serves me and more of a voice to communicate exactly what that is.
What would you do with the $25,000?We recently moved from DC, where you succeed by playing by the rules, to LA so that my daughters could grow up somewhere that they could be iconoclasts. As I figure out what my place in this world will be, I need help in organizing and harnessing my creativity into something meaningful - much like a great artist does when they take my descriptions of a feeling or a mood and make it into a permanent image. I would use the money to hire a life “artist” to help me design my way forward.
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