We finally finished! The black and grey sugar skull piece is finished and I'm really siked about it! Although I will miss my customer coming in too see me so often!
The cancer ribbon butterfly was done on a woman who is a breast cancer survivor and went through a double mastectomy. She is writing a book about her experience with cancer and I am really looking forward to reading it when its complete.
We spoke of how... after battling cancer, survivors are so quick to run out and "mark" their bodies with tattoos about the cancer. My thoughts to this are, the act of getting the cancer tattoo is something positive a survivor can do to their bodies which is completely within their control. This is so unlike the multiple procedures endured by the patient which are completely out of their control for so long. I believe the tattoo is so significant because it is the act of being able to finally take back this much needed control or their body!
