The last few weeks have been really special around here. I have been hearing some wonderful heartfelt stories lately. A few weeks ago, I was tattooing on this woman, and she was upset because here Grandma was in the hospital with failing health and who knows how it will go...And then there has been all these memorial tattoos that we have been doing around here. I did a really special one tonight actually, I did not know at the time that's what I was doing, but she confided that her Fiance died in December due to a freak accident. She told me the story and it was so sad! This woman is not even 30 years old. She got their birth flowers tattooed on her and told me that coincidently the flowers together meant eternal love. I totally felt for her. We touched on Death a little- which is not unfamiliar around here. It's amazing how Death comes up so often while tattooing. It's a deep subject, maybe that's why. Another gal came in tonight who I consulted with that I am doing a boat load of script on and it was this romantic kinda eerie poem, and she told me that she read that poem and her Grandfathers funeral! I can not wait to do cause I totally see it in my head and I can't wait to execute!
It is funny because through the designing of the tattoo process to actually doing the piece, I realize that I give so much of myself to these people, and at the same time while I am tattooing people they open up and tell me their stories. There is something truely magical about the tattoo chair. I am just honored.
So, I end my night with doing the clean up, put the machines to bed, which I dropped and it landed on my big toe, which hurt super bad, but at least it didn't land on the floor and get damaged, but god damn my toe hurts!
Oh yeah and another thing I heard today while working was " Don't slam Jesus down my throat " !
...awesome!
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