I have 6 tattoos (plus one stick and poke I let a man do on me at a party when I was 18.) And of course- I want more.
My first tattoo I got during my first month of freshman year of college freshly moved to New York- itâs on my rib cage- it says âgoodnight nobodyâ which is pulled from the childrenâs book goodnight moon. 1. I was read that book as a kid. 2. I remember I rediscovered that book when I was high in the mall in high school and that blank page saying âgoodnight nobodyâ felt poignant for all kinds of reasons. Just a call into the void in a childrenâs book?
A rendition of a sculpture from Portia Munsonâs installation âBound Angelâ that I saw at PPOW a couple years ago- because the work just spoke to me and womanhood at large
i have a fairy (way bigger than I intended) because fairies were a huge part of my girlhood
hey arnold (helgaâs locket of arnold) because my mom watched that show with me before I can even remember and 2. I like Helga was also a yearner in middle school
A bunny because bunny
And most recently two of my best friends and I got matching three-headed deer. I havenât even known them for very long but a portrait of our love felt like a very beautiful and sentimental thing to do regardless of fate.
The only one that hurt was the poorly done stick and poke done at the party right next to my vagina- but ofc I acted like wasn't that bad (it was pretty bad).
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hell yea, I feel like itâs cool how the âmeaningâ / significance of the tattoo canât be pegged immediately by an onlooker and yet theyâre each deeply meaningful
alaiyo yeah itâs nice to have the stories you choose live on your body - I always ask people about their tattoos because they often are more meaningful than what what one may suspect! And sometimes they have no real meaning and thatâs perfectly as fine. Im an appreciator of art/words for all diff reasons outside of the tattoo realm so in the tattoo realm its the same for me
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I have 6, all fine linework except for a trad style convo heart on my upper thigh. I love hand poke from professionals - itâs super intimate and a lot of the artists I followed when I lived in Austin almost exclusively did hand poke work instead of machine. they are not blown out and have not faded :-) I think long and hard about placement, but I just get stuff I want from artists I love. Not everything has to have A Deep Meaning. My faves are a pear on my right forearm (stranger: why the pear? me: I love pears), âformâ on the back of my left arm, and the lightbulb eye from Picassoâs Guernica above the inside of my right elbow. tattoos are sexy as hell, and I plan to keep collecting them for the rest of my life. The pain to me usually feels like someone scratching a sunburn - worst was my finger since itâs close to bone and the convo heart since the artist went IN! it can be really bad or very tolerable, but I have genuinely enjoyed talking to all of the artists who have given me their work and just focus on the overall experience âš the more shading/color, the more itâs gonna hurt and the more intensive the healing process
Mar 25, 2024
-I have my best friends childhood teddy bear tattooed with her initial âCâ in it, and she has my childhood teddy bear with my initials âSRâ
-I have a jester my friend drew for a flyer and in her handwriting the word âsmegmaâ in the balloon the jester is holding because itâs the title of my favorite song my friend wrote (linked the song btw) she has a rat she drew and in my handwriting âsewer ratâ which is my nickname and my tag
-me and my friend were walking around her neighborhood in the sunset district and found an old book on the sidewalk and it had so many cool drawings/symbols in it and both of our favorite shape is a spiral so we each got one of the symbols from the book on our hand
May 25, 2024
i love coming up with different stories depending on whoâs asking, what mood iâm in, how much time i have to explain. but lately, iâve totally started copping out and saying âitâs personalâ every time the topic comes up. admitting to getting something so permanent on your body âjust causeâ đ€Ș feels daunting, especially when most peoplesâ reason for never getting a tattoo is that they canât decide what would be important or visually pleasing enough to have on them at all times.
now, this indifference towards my silly ink has made me doubt or even dislike some of it and iâm not about that! at all!! my interests have always been in a state of flux but iâve also always gotten so much joy from self expression and all my pointless tattoos are markers of times when that joy was there, or when i was searching for it.
so as practice, hereâs a short intro to my latest ink đ€ i got it on a whim in argentina from an artist a friend recommended. itâs a little streetlight on my leg and while, objectively, it means nada to me, it represents this trip where i grew closer to my friends by seeing them through the lens of their culture, the life of a friend that was lost while i was here, a person that i met that helped me grieve and made me uncover parts of me i had been caging for some time. tomorrow it might be in honor of remy, the sweet-sweet kitty that weighted-blanketed me through the whole session. either way, iâm cool with it.
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Itâs okay. itâs not for validation, itâs for performance art. Linda Montano said living life itself is her lifelong performance because she declared that it was. Trisha Paytas has carried on that performance practice. So Iâm hot on instagram when the spirit compels me to be. But in like a durationally artistic way and for my future lifelong archive, to show my granddaughters that I was also young and fertile once and my boobs were decently sized and semi perky. They should know. That I was that girl once before I was grey and a bit wrinkled and more bitter than I am currently; for traditional reasons.
Mar 14, 2024
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Iâm post-grad, unemployed, no direction, sick with a stomach flu or something, went on 3 back to back trips so like I spent a lot of money, clearly have lots of time to write and recommend and ponder and not be ridden with confusion and anxiety these days.
So yes, of course here I am. Back at last to Perfectly Imperfect. Youâve caught me red-handed. Crawling back as Iâm glued to my couch currently on a nocturnal sleep schedule due to perhaps a combination of my illness and my body remaining in a time zone opposite to the one I must adjust back to.
Hope someone out there missed me. The bitch is back.
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