Shallow

Ok . . . maybe im a bit shallow. Ill stand up and admit it! Although some of my tattoos I got with a particular meaning behind them, the majority of my tattoos I have gotten SHEERLY for their beauty. I don’t think this makes me less of a collector . . . Just one who loves the beauty of how tattoo patterns look on the skin, and visually shape the body. Maybe that IS the meaning, plain, aesthetic appeal. I often hear tattoo enthusiasts slighting other tattoo collectors for getting tattoos with no personal meaning. I would argue that the sheer act of getting tattooed CREATES the meaning. Even if a client decides to get a dot put on them, the mere act of getting that dot becomes so profound that they will remember the exact circumstance in which they got the dot, who was present, how old they were and what was going on in their lives when they got this dot. This is an example of the act of getting tattooed CREATING meaning. On the other hand I have spent years thinking of the perfect tattoo to represent something in my life. I think what I am trying to get across is that its ok to either get a tattoo filled with personal meaning or let the act of the tattoo create the meaning. It’s just important to GET tattooed