Shakende said..
I believe the tattoo experience has a rich kind of intelligence of it's own and is here right under our very noses lying dormant and silent, waiting for those who want to open themselves to it's great wisdom.
When experiencing the tattoo through the lens of the heart, one not only wakens the sleeping intelligence of the tattoo, but realigns the soul with its Source, creating what I refer to as a "soul print".
All beautifully written, I like it. However, I also believe that your eye is the window to your soul, perhaps your intelligence? Look into the eyes of some of the "public art gallery" on the streets, I can't see much evidence of intelligence but patches of mangled ink images on some fools.
Take the most common bunch of fools for example. Would you go as far as saying bikes have souls and intelligence? Their tangled mess of images are out to tell the world how tough they are, and don't mess with meee, or I will call in my mates to re-arrange your face. By themselves, away from their noisy, ugly, over priced, poor excuse of a bike called Harley Davidson, they are just a boy who needs his bunch of ugly mates to back him up.
Then the fools who have ugly images on their neck, and even on their face, what self respecting people wants to deface own face like that?
What about the fools who got tattoos because their mates also had one while on one of those cheap holidays? Pissed out of the f-king mind, no idea where they were on this planet, and tried desperately to hide it when they became sober enough to realize that they messed up. Buyer's regret?
Also, the tattoo designs are copied from someone else anyway. So there is no originality whatsoever. But then we are asking too much of these fools, aren't we ?
