Madison Atwater

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My most recent tattoo doesn’t have much meaning, it’s a rubber duck with a spikey mohawk. My most meaningful tattoo is my flower piece representing each of my family members with the words “play your heart out” in my grandfather’s handwriting. He taught me to play guitar and it’s placed so that I can see it when I play and it gives me peace when my nerves get worked up when I perform.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

My tattoos would tell you how I’ve changed in the last 7 years. I had a hard time adjusting to becoming an adult and thought it would be easier than it is, so my tattoos remind me of times I had to learn and grow to get through and made me who I am now.

What would you do with the $25,000?

A piece would immediately go into a savings fund for emergencies, and part would go to paying off the remainder of my debt in hospital bills from a motorcycle wreck I was in about 2 years ago. My parents’ dream is to have a large piece of land and start a small community/town with our family scattered across the property, so the rest would go to starting that life for them.