Vincent's Cross Represents Faith and Heritage

Religious tattoos are quite common, as any casual observer of other people's tattoos can tell you. Generally, I don't ask people about them, but every so often I feel inclined, especially when I think they're done nicely.<br /><br />Take Vincent, for example. I met him in Penn Station and took a picture of this cross on his forearm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuQPYWitM4VuqKupy3Lguew0JcHYvOzTGWL_ZL7S_ArHDrDCmTLDDyJaUlpGfHzcuIgnrMOc3WYbn-1He4mLt2xhcps_ibhpskwkI5Aut_KtJsAHj5YzluS-b04eQMJipVheZCL7PTIV0/s1600/Vincent+cross.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuQPYWitM4VuqKupy3Lguew0JcHYvOzTGWL_ZL7S_ArHDrDCmTLDDyJaUlpGfHzcuIgnrMOc3WYbn-1He4mLt2xhcps_ibhpskwkI5Aut_KtJsAHj5YzluS-b04eQMJipVheZCL7PTIV0/s640/Vincent+cross.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><br />Vincent explained that he drew this design, incorporating Celtic designs, as an acknowledgement of his faith (represented by the cross and the circle, symbolizing the Trinity) and his heritage. His father's ancestry is Welsh, and his mother's family is Italian.<br /><br /><br /><br />The tattoo was done by at <a href="http://www.sacred-x-pressions.com/">Sacred-X-Pressions</a> in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. He doesn't recall the tattooist's name, but does know he has moved on from that shop.<br /><br /><br />Thanks to Vincent for sharing his expression of faith and heritage with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}</style> <![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span>

Vincent's Cross Represents Faith and Heritage

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The Tattooed Poets Project: Martha Serpas

<div class="MsoNormal">On this, our fourth day of the third annual Tattooed Poets Project, we are honored to have work from <a href="http://www.marthaserpas.com/">Martha Serpas</a>.<br /><br />Readers may wonder where we find all these tattooed poets. Most come our way by word of mouth, but a small handful, like in Martha's case, agree to participate after we send out e-mail inquiries, without even knowing if a poet is inked or not. Most poets don't even respond, a handful do, but are not tattooed, and once in a blue moon, we find a tattooed poet who is happy to participate.<br /><br />Anyway, here's one of Martha's tattoos:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXiP_22vgCMFgYrmOzh-Oqj4QutMjFAa6d2kXN77iO2a8HzLTUtNQILg6zHknldKvOOtRg6mzqUYlbEHAvKTKDVG_i8-32PmRwDOQ7qTIeFRz9HAG7N54NRndyDUAp4ICxlh9ntq0OlzI/s1600/serpas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXiP_22vgCMFgYrmOzh-Oqj4QutMjFAa6d2kXN77iO2a8HzLTUtNQILg6zHknldKvOOtRg6mzqUYlbEHAvKTKDVG_i8-32PmRwDOQ7qTIeFRz9HAG7N54NRndyDUAp4ICxlh9ntq0OlzI/s640/serpas.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Martha explains:</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This tattoo is a montage over 20 or so years in the making. First work, Willie [at Willie's Island Tattoos] on Staten Island; <a href="http://www.manta.com/c/mm87f6p/daniel-williams">Dan [Williams</a> at the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bpttattoo">Bridgeport Tattoo Shop]</a> in Bridgeport, CT; <a href="http://www.tattoobydesign.com/bonniejean.htm">Bonnie Jean</a> in Yachats, OR at [<a href="http://www.tattoobydesign.com/">Tattoo by Design</a>]; and a guy in Houston I never should have let reline it. Bonnie Jean <strike>was</strike> is old school and taught me that tattooing is like coloring in a book: anybody can do it if the lines are really thick. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The tattoo’s a chronicle of a tumultuous time in my life. The wind/water symbol (my design) traversing the image was first. It felt like a spiritual emblem. The bird represents a goal of peace (brought it in from somewhere). The moliere/Celtic cross  (graphic artist friend, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/cjanuska">Carla Januska</a> designed) is modeled after the one on the chapel at my divinity school and doubles as a setting sun. It is my graduation ring, of sorts. The feathery flame shapes (Bonnie Jean’s freehand) <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6058251288236499429" name="_GoBack"></a>within the wings and tail came last—my attempt to soften up the image when my life became more tranquil.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I have a small tattoo on my ankle that precedes this one(s); a memorial to my best friend on my thigh; a reverse hurricane symbol on my thumb (post-Katrina); and a symbol of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perichoresis">perichoresis </a>(divine revolution) on my forearm. I’ve been told I look like a doodle pad. I get tattooed about every 5 years. If I ever become content with life, I’ll stop trying to achieve the ideal personal emblem. For now, I doodle.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">•••••••</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Martha also contributed the following poem which, she explained, "was inspired by a photograph on the cover of <i><a href="http://www.easyriders.com/tattoo/">Tattoo</a>."  </i>One note, Martha adds, is that "<a href="http://www.studiotattoo.com/suzanne.html">Suzanne</a> owned the shop in Ann Arbor where I got my first ankle tattoo: Creative Tattoo by Suzanne. Great T-shirt: Go forth and live as art. I heard she passed away: Her breast piece was amazing."<br /><div class="MsoNormal"></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Tattoo</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">She knows being chosen means to choose herself</div><div class="MsoNormal">and seals upon her breasts the Sacred Heart—</div><div class="MsoNormal">a thorn-bound garnet against open lilies,</div><div class="MsoNormal">a pink-and-white ink triptych on her chest.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Every shadow, a creed professed by lines </div><div class="MsoNormal">from votive needles to her deepest cells. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Her body gives life to art, reflects the fade</div><div class="MsoNormal">of dying flesh, and honors God’s design.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">No second thoughts, she thinks that pain</div><div class="MsoNormal">is easily a choice we make ourselves,</div><div class="MsoNormal">as is admiring her canvas skin</div><div class="MsoNormal">as it ages. Affirmed with words spelled</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">on a defiant ribbon across her chest,</div><div class="MsoNormal">her blazón: <i>Even the blackest sheep are blessed.</i> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">            [Appeared in <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1930974175/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1930974175%22%3ECote%20Blanche%20%28New%20Issues%20Poetry%20&%20Prose%29%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=1930974175%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Côte Blanche</i></a> (New Issues, 2002)]</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">•••••••</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.marthaserpas.com/">Martha Serpas’s</a> two collections of poetry are <i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1930974175/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1930974175%22%3ECote%20Blanche%20%28New%20Issues%20Poetry%20&%20Prose%29%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=1930974175%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E">Côte Blanche</a> </i>(New Issues, 2002) and <i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393331431/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0393331431%22%3EThe%20Dirty%20Side%20of%20the%20Storm:%20Poems%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=0393331431%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E">The Dirty Side of the Storm</a> </i>(Norton, 2007). Her work has appeared in <i><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/04/07/080407po_poem_serpas">The New Yorker</a>, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/node/22941">The Nation</a>, </i>and <a href="http://smu.edu/southwestreview/"><i>Southwest Review</i></a>, and in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">anthologies such as <i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802864643/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0802864643%22%3EBearing%20the%20Mystery:%20Twenty%20Years%20of%20IMAGE%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=0802864643%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E">Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image</a> </i>and the Library of America’s <i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193108274X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=193108274X%22%3EAmerican%20Religious%20Poems:%20An%20Anthology%20by%20Harold%20Bloom%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=193108274X%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E">American Religious Poems</a>. </i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A native of Bayou Lafourche in south </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Louisiana</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, she is involved in efforts to restore </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Louisiana</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s wetlands. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">She teaches creative writing at the </span><a href="http://www.class.uh.edu/cwp/"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">University</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Houston</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and is a hospital trauma chaplain.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />You can learn more about Martha and her writing at her website, <a href="http://www.marthaserpas.com/">http://www.marthaserpas.com/</a>.<br /><br />A sincere thanks to Martha for sharing her tattoo and poem with us here on Tattoosday! </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=1930974175" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=0393331431" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div><br />This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. The poem is reprinted here with the permission of the author.<br /><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit http://tattoosday.blogspot.com and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.

The Tattooed Poets Project: Martha Serpas

On this, our fourth day of the third annual Tattooed Poets Project, we are honored to have work from Martha Serpas . Readers may wonder wher...

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Cat's Hands-ome Tattoos

I met Cat earlier this week at <a href="http://www.borders.com/online/store/StoreDetailView_582">Borders</a>, which has been the go-to locale for inkspotting during a very sparse winter.<br /><br />He has fifteen tattoos, but we discussed the two I noticed, on the tops of his hands:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwpUXhPb7xMvHu_MJYkhUTnjJXIpWeh22486NX95ty1FsGOOGzkB0R5KnJ76UTJ4pftFaRGCqw-C9F6HHxptiOTIzgDW1i0gkZgh0RiLrBXg0x6OR59gpdG9cTjyQ7dgYupZsvbZwey6E/s1600/Cats+hands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwpUXhPb7xMvHu_MJYkhUTnjJXIpWeh22486NX95ty1FsGOOGzkB0R5KnJ76UTJ4pftFaRGCqw-C9F6HHxptiOTIzgDW1i0gkZgh0RiLrBXg0x6OR59gpdG9cTjyQ7dgYupZsvbZwey6E/s400/Cats+hands.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The tattoos are variations on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_mythology">Celtic</a> pagan designs that he modified to make his own.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjECP9fDUv3xNWDwLpjXirsA-eAX8o8BlhpR7-7-v1puJAkZUOPPHZ5rEhT03GglwYJ0ckKc0ayvGugRv8sB1x3ywbc5XoFuqSni4dt9MC-MhQnkpHeqwAxEXjexHssbDZRqw7qS0l6JL0/s1600/Cats+right+hand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjECP9fDUv3xNWDwLpjXirsA-eAX8o8BlhpR7-7-v1puJAkZUOPPHZ5rEhT03GglwYJ0ckKc0ayvGugRv8sB1x3ywbc5XoFuqSni4dt9MC-MhQnkpHeqwAxEXjexHssbDZRqw7qS0l6JL0/s400/Cats+right+hand.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br />The right hand represents the chalice of the goddess, who represents expressiveness and creativity. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca">Wiccan</a> principles acknowledge that the goddess is the source of all expression.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ookHdxsf3Gli9dmAelIeoMWnfyAWnoKvBqVb2StWY3LgXlEooD3EhZvLSVGC_8B5JC9hmcf3EOqUNmjr-MUfXQXZmNXhzh-31fSI_zO_j7Ow5pA6e4-JQ8HLQUCbQW_kZ2est3Mrkm4/s1600/Cats+left+hand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ookHdxsf3Gli9dmAelIeoMWnfyAWnoKvBqVb2StWY3LgXlEooD3EhZvLSVGC_8B5JC9hmcf3EOqUNmjr-MUfXQXZmNXhzh-31fSI_zO_j7Ow5pA6e4-JQ8HLQUCbQW_kZ2est3Mrkm4/s400/Cats+left+hand.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><br />Cat's other hand is decorated with a Celtic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra">triquetra</a>. The three markings around the design are letters drawn in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theban_alphabet">Theban</a> script, each corresponding to the first initials of his three children.<br /><br />Cat says that these, as well as his other tattoos, were inked by <a href="http://villagemoontattoos.com/section/147434_Neo.html">Neo</a> at <a href="http://villagemoontattoos.com/home.html">Village Moon Tattoos</a> in Jackson Heights, in the borough of Queens.<br /><br />Readers interested in these tattoos may also be interested in checking out our old friend Livia Indica's site <a href="http://neopaganink.blogspot.com/">NeoPagan Ink</a>.<br /><br />Thanks kindly to Cat for sharing his tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Cat's Hands-ome Tattoos

I met Cat earlier this week at Borders , which has been the go-to locale for inkspotting during a very sparse winter. He has fifteen tattoos...

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Tony's Celtic Fish, Swimming Up His Calf

Last month, I spotted Tony on the <a href="http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/rline.htm">R train</a> after leaving the 14th Street/Union Square station.<br /><br />About thirteen years ago, his girlfriend was getting a Celtic dog tattoo, and he decided to get inked as well:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyHcWhbp1Lum6d6IV1DOkG_bM8HhbYQ__jAM9hnJIuhLuGKXjqeKUxNxvJtLGo4ieG5xk2fuYkjZa4NIsgo5P1VAsDfDYnfEg_RMJbslKFNDjcABppmasGy1hO9UmS_EOXzkswuJUC/s1600/Tony+fish+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyHcWhbp1Lum6d6IV1DOkG_bM8HhbYQ__jAM9hnJIuhLuGKXjqeKUxNxvJtLGo4ieG5xk2fuYkjZa4NIsgo5P1VAsDfDYnfEg_RMJbslKFNDjcABppmasGy1hO9UmS_EOXzkswuJUC/s640/Tony+fish+wm.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br />These works of art on his left leg derive, he told me, were inspired by illustrations from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells">Book of Kells</a>.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj5UILpKYTBgx10ZO-nTCsYUjrys_qMj07k3xgTIs6gq-Jx5ggwbFYdZWi2X3jjaNauzjloYXg3orwLnipgtn1La8BkR2edoopbhPBXhC3RQPaJMAiPCM13NPDL1OY9UNgzPn0_pDM/s1600/kells_188v1_I_lion_fish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj5UILpKYTBgx10ZO-nTCsYUjrys_qMj07k3xgTIs6gq-Jx5ggwbFYdZWi2X3jjaNauzjloYXg3orwLnipgtn1La8BkR2edoopbhPBXhC3RQPaJMAiPCM13NPDL1OY9UNgzPn0_pDM/s400/kells_188v1_I_lion_fish.jpg" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Book/Manuscript: <a href="http://www.art-imagery.com/book.php?id=kells">Book of Kells</a><br />VII Century, Ireland / ScotlandPage (Folio): 188v<br />initial letter I with lion and fish<br />(from http://www.art-imagery.com/) </td></tr></tbody></table>Tony explained that he is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuba_diving">SCUBA</a> instructor, so these fish from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackerel">mackerel</a> family are a nice link to that vocation.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19QhIQgqlfcfYDleqBRc8Awd9Rp-5Fveh4xuY-Rmh4Zc6f5k0ki5dQGq0Nze6CwkkBaLX7ri_WqJpEBQS_Xx3YSwcaVaqaWkphN6j0SVpsn69diLsXDJpVm-RVIr-BZYzeQUw_9BQ/s1600/Tony+fish+little+wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19QhIQgqlfcfYDleqBRc8Awd9Rp-5Fveh4xuY-Rmh4Zc6f5k0ki5dQGq0Nze6CwkkBaLX7ri_WqJpEBQS_Xx3YSwcaVaqaWkphN6j0SVpsn69diLsXDJpVm-RVIr-BZYzeQUw_9BQ/s640/Tony+fish+little+wm.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><br />Not only have these tattoos held up over the years, they are noteworthy because they were inked by <a href="http://www.luckyfish.com/">Pat Fish</a> in Santa Barbara, who is regarded as one of the premiere artists working with Celtic designs.<br /><br />I also love the coincidental nature of Fish by Fish.<br /><br />Thanks to Tony for sharing these amazing tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Tony's Celtic Fish, Swimming Up His Calf

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Kristen's Trilogy of Knots

The 34th Street Platform for the A Train has been very kind to us here at Tattoosday, even more so this summer than in years' past.<br /><br />Take Kristen, for example. She generously offered up this small portion of her corporeal canvas:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqb4KLuAXtUAtO8ViUVMA_Tguyb5wk4-aQM4lR3hkLC6I1t3QCiklf3m5AG8LP-yZcnb756aSgh9kSExgBkisna66QmWQX60E6aGYd1ZyEkRG0QVDUqBgIbyZEbG5cDNqqK_In2ytq/s1600/celtic+knots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqb4KLuAXtUAtO8ViUVMA_Tguyb5wk4-aQM4lR3hkLC6I1t3QCiklf3m5AG8LP-yZcnb756aSgh9kSExgBkisna66QmWQX60E6aGYd1ZyEkRG0QVDUqBgIbyZEbG5cDNqqK_In2ytq/s640/celtic+knots.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><br />Estimating that she is at least a quarter covered by ink, this "trilogy of knots" was the artist's response to Kristen's request to attach the cobwebs on her elbow to the end of her wrist.<br /><br />The artist, identified only as "Batman" near Canal and Broadway, was also asked to incorporate a Celtic pattern, as well.<br /><br />The final result was to Kristen's liking and we here at Tattoosday thank her for sharing the tattoo with all of our readers!

Kristen's Trilogy of Knots

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