Artwork by the incomparable Donald Purvis.
This is one I've wanted for a long, long time. I say, "this will be my last," but I've been saying that since my third one, back in 1992. Two more tattoos/fifteen years later; we'll see...
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6 comments:
Very Nice tattoo. Did you take the photos yourself? I like the b/w myself but the color isn't bad either.
Thanks! The wait was worth it; it has taken over as my fave.
And yes, I did take the photos--and even though I used a tripod and various settings, I just couldn't get the clarity I wanted. But hey, it's serviceable.
I don't have any tattoo's myself, but the right tattoo on the right person always looks cool...especially if there is something behind the design. After reading the about that design, I think yours is very cool.
Thanks for your thoughts, Neil!
All of my tattoos have an intention behind the image--I would never get them, otherwise. I look back at my first, nearly 20-year-old tattoo and think I probably wouldn't get that image today, but it points to where I was then. They all serve as little benchmarks. But I've never had respect for anyone who just shows up at a tattoo shop and gets "whatever" to fit in, appease their friends, etc. For me, it's always been a very personal expression; not a passing fancy.
Tattooing used to be a part of subculture, but nowadays, there are probably more people who are tattooed than are not. Just like everything else that's cool and subversive, it gets sucked up by the normals, trying to be cool, and becomes convention. It's too bad, because it can be a really liberating form of artistic expression--and certainly in my case--a catharsis.
Is that the same tattoo that Agent Scully got in that episode of The X Files in which she falls for a guy who starts hallucinating because of the red dye they used?
Either way, I love it!
Good eye! Not an exact match to Scully's (also an ouroboros, styled just a little differently), but that episode was most certainly in my mind. Actually, it is almost an exact match to the symbol from Chris Carter's other show, Millennium.
So yeah, it all loops in.
Thanks for the positive vote!
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