National Tatoo Story Day
Love the stories behind tats as much as the art🖤
Hope we can get some pics and stories here.
Show us your tats and stories toos Coso!
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@damselfly59 My tattoos are a mural, still incomplete about life, death, and afterlife.

It starts on my left hand with the hare on my hand, with hidden human elements pointing towards the right side, the tattoo that covers my forearm is the home I remember, and a pathway leading away, off to the mountains

On the other side we see that hare pass,fallen to a red eyed monster, only to rise again. wrapped around my right wrist is a broken shackle, representing revelation of my spiritual truth.

@damselfly59 Finally on my right hand there is a hare scarred by years, guant, and haggard, but purified by all she has endured, pointed back towards home.

@damselfly59 A couple more pictures including the protoype for the right hand.

Also the runic compass, because I need all the help I can get to keep from getting lost (It's traditionally about finding your way through bad weather)

The knuckle tats with the lines represents the transtion from this life, with the human overlay, to the next, the "bowtie" is the rune Dagaz which represents the dawn. My Lady Eostre is Goddess of the Dawn and spring

Which is mirrored by the sunrise on my right

@damselfly59 The seven pointed star is the symbol for Otherkin. Which is part of my faith path.

On either shoulder, I have the beginnings of the rest of the mural, the Orange hare will one day be framed by a sun done in anglo saxon knot work, and the black hare on my right will have chains dangling from its paws, weighted by an upturned crescent moon dripping blood.

@NiveusLepus wow. You have a great story. Is your artist the same or is it your work?

@damselfly59 Various artists, over years. I have to save up, and people come and go. The Blue OX studio in portland did my forearms, White Lotus in Vancouver did the Vegvisir and my knuckle tattoos. And an artist named Smallz did my hands... The ones on my shoulder are old, but the one on my right was done by Fossil, out of New york, who also did the seven pointed star on the underside of my wrist.

The Hare on my left shoulder was done in Lubbock 22 years ago, and I've forgotten his name.