iin 2003, a friend lamented to me that her son had recently gotten some tattoos. She said, “The only thing his tattoos qualify him for is a job where he asks, ‘Do you want fries with that?’”
Although I kept my peace, I thought she was wrong. Lots of my younger patients have tattoos, and I sensed that their tats had meaning for them. So I started asking patients what their tattoos meant to them and why they had gotten them. I also asked their permission to photograph their tattoos. I collected 50 consecutive tattoos from 50 consecutive patients. Not one person declined having a photo of their tattootaken.
I put the images on a website and for years they just sat there. Sadly, the company that hosted the website went out of business recently and I just discovered that that collection was lost. However, the photos were still in my Google photos, so this time I’m going to put them on Blogger, which will probably never go out of business, at least not in the foreseeable future.
I’ve forgotten most of the comments I made at the time, but at least the imagers are here to be seen now.
Thank you, Blogger!
Memorial Tattoo
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| I remember this young woman. Her mother died and at the funeral a dragonfly landed on the coffin. That led her sister and her to get these tattoos in honor of their mother. |
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