Shelly Delaney

I have a tree that extends from my elbow to my shoulder. Stick a poke in one session took 6hrs to complete.

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What inspired your most recent tattoo?

I work as a nurse and I deal with hospice patients occasionally. Sometimes those patients have no family or friends and I wonder what they were like before they came to this stage in their life. Occasionally when they have tattoos it gives insight on who they were and what they maybe liked, it’s also one of the last things you can take with you. I decided to get this tattoo a couple days before the solar eclipse it’s inspired by a documentary called trees and other entanglements.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

Please keep putting sunscreen on me.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would help my mom out with fixing her house. Take some time off of work to travel. Then get a tattoo with my cousin who’s my best friend.

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