“When you’re young, it’s hard to feel as if you’re doing anything more than seeking passage within your body, and we find all kinds of ways of taking control, of trying to make the body stay. It took me a long time to learn that good tattooing, like all good art, is less about a yearning for…”Tagged: How To Think, Ink, Tattooing, Permanence, Change
“It would be — and still is — the little home we carry with us. Marriage is not an attempt at staying the present. At least, good marriages aren’t. And neither are good tattoos.”Tagged: Tattooing, Permanence, Longevity, Escape, Change
“I wanted to mark my beauty, my youth, because I was confused about death and permanence, because I could not imagine getting uglier or older or sadder or wiser.”Tagged: Death, Youth, beauty