Using My Body As a Canvas
By AZ on May 28, 2008 in Society
As far as I’m concerned, tattoos are just as much as an art form as paintings or sketches. And since I consider myself an artist, I am all about tattoo flash.
Flash gives me the ability to make my own artwork and get it printed up and drawn anywhere I want on my body. I sketch all the time on papers and pads, so why wouldn’t it be okay for me to try to make a tattoo of my own? I’ve got some Celtic tattoos all ready to be printed on my back, and I’ve made some tribal tattoos for a bunch of my friends, each of them trying to represent their Native American roots.
I’m all for other people designing these tats for me, but for me, I want to be the artist if my body is going to be the canvas. Yeah, I could easily print out something that someone else has done before, but I want my tattoo to be unique – something that I know I’m the only one in the world that has. When I get old, and my grandkids want to see the tattoos on my body, I want to be able to look them in the eye and say “I made that.”
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