Karess Zieris

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

"Stop expecting out of people what you would expect out of yourself" that's my most recent tattoo, I got it really as a life lesson and a daily reminder to myself. When we expect others to react like us or to do things the way we would we start viewing them in a negative way when they don't meet those expectations, by changing that view we allow them to be themselves and find beauty in who they are, as they are.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

My tattoos would speak of a bold, resilient, incredibly strong woman. They would speak of a woman who's lived 1000 terrible lifetimes but somehow managed to heal by the grace of God only to begin a new life finally at peace with their past, the anxiety of tomorrow left for tomorrow and learning to live for today.

What would you do with the $25,000?

First I would finish my back piece and buy a small piece of land to park my camper on so my dogs could run free they earned it. They spent the last year homeless with me and I promised them especially my boy who is 11 that before he gets too old to enjoy it he will have land to run and I intend to keep that promise even if it means working my fingers to the bone to make that happen.