Ending April with Sharon Mesmer’s Rose (The Tattooed Poets Project)
I met Sharon Mesmer last July at the NYC Poetry Festival on Governor’s Island. Sharon is a wonderful poet, and she seemed initially surprised that I was interested in the tattoo on her left arm:This rose on the top of her forearm, below her wrist, is an older piece but, as you would imagine, the story behind it is fascinating:”I got my tattoo because I was traveling in Europe and Asia, and wanted a tattoo on each wrist for each continent. I got…
My tattoo-designs: the chinese Five Elements
Hello, everyone! In this post I’d like to present you one of my tattoo-designs which combines tribal elements with some ancient symbols used in the Taoist cosmology (namely, the Yin-Yang symbol and the Wu Xing ideograms).Wu Xing tattoo. Ideograms meaning: the chinese Five Elements: Wood (木, mù), Fire (火, huǒ), Earth (土, tǔ), Metal (金, jīn), Water (水, shuǐ). For more Kanji/Hanzi-tattoo-designs visit my website, seiza.ro…
The Tattooed Poets Project: Larry Jaffe
Our next tattooed poet is Larry Jaffe:Larry explains:”I always wanted a dagger tattoo from the time I was a kid. I went to see David Zero and was thumbing through his books and spotted this dragon being slayed by a sword and said that’s it. It was a painstaking thing as I recall, especially putting in the white on the sword. He had to go over it over and over and over and over again. It is time for me to get it touched up …
The Tattooed Poets Project: Senia Hardwick
Our next tattooed poet is Senia Hardwick:Senia explained that her “tattoo relates to a lot of similar themes and feelings to that of my work, though in and of itself it is not literary.” She adds, “I tend to write poetry that explores the transmutation of feelings and experience into landscapes and…
The Tattooed Poets Project: Sara’s Scorpio
Our next tattooed poet is Sara Tracey, who sent us this image of her ink:Sara tells us the story of how she came by this work:”Jimbo, my tattoo artist, had just gotten his license. He was a middle-aged biker who lived with his middle-aged, ex-stripper girlfriend, Peaches, in Akron, Ohio. Jimbo’s studio was set up in the corner of his basement; just a chair and a table, some ink and a gun. I…
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Wild west coquille board flash sheet
Continuing my never ending fixation with Coquille board…-Murray
