tattoo stuff again
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keryxEveryone who sees the tattoo seems to want to know What It Means. Does everyone who gets a tattoo mean something by it?
Mine does, of course, have a bunch of personal and intellectual symbolism wrapped up in it. So when people ask me, I try to tell them. Ideally this would involve a short description of the Eleusinian Mysteries, a quick summary of Noh and Zeami, some speculation about the "apples" of Semitic and Mediterranean myth, and finish off with my thoughts on the politicization of the fat belly. I could write an essay. But people ask and then immediately glaze over.
Does that normally happen? I mean. Why ask, if you don't want to know that much? Is it a polite question that requires no real answer? Should I have a 2-sentence answer prepared? In the past week or so I've taken to saying "oh, it's about change and growth".
Also, everything in the world is connected. My hairstylist (in Richmond) and my tattooist (in Maryland) went to high school together.
Mine does, of course, have a bunch of personal and intellectual symbolism wrapped up in it. So when people ask me, I try to tell them. Ideally this would involve a short description of the Eleusinian Mysteries, a quick summary of Noh and Zeami, some speculation about the "apples" of Semitic and Mediterranean myth, and finish off with my thoughts on the politicization of the fat belly. I could write an essay. But people ask and then immediately glaze over.
Does that normally happen? I mean. Why ask, if you don't want to know that much? Is it a polite question that requires no real answer? Should I have a 2-sentence answer prepared? In the past week or so I've taken to saying "oh, it's about change and growth".
Also, everything in the world is connected. My hairstylist (in Richmond) and my tattooist (in Maryland) went to high school together.
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Date: 2007-08-02 08:11 pm (UTC)I go in cycles. Sometimes, I really want to explain Audre Lorde or the reasoning behind the words on my upper shoulder. Sometimes, it leads to a great conversation.
And sometimes, I don't want to share my struggles and triumphs and failures (all of which are really tied into my tattoos) with total fucking strangers. So I don't.
I did have a guy give me his phone number last night AFTER reading my tattoos. That was odd.