Firstly, I want to say thank you for having read my last post about the Holocaust and the film "The Eichmann Show".
It means a lot to me, because I think it is very important to remember our past which defines what we are today.
Now we change totally the type of topic, because we will talk about art: TATTOOS!
In the future, I will write some posts about art, maybe they will focus on some exhibitions I saw and some others I would like to see, or on the artists I love the most.
Anyway, now I want to tell you my personal experience and what tattoos represent to me.
I met this beautiful world three years ago, when I got my first tattoo, an Aztec serpent:
It was a particular choice, but when I looked at this drawing I fall in love with it immediately. I'm still really interested in the Aztec history and mythology, but when I thought that I could get a tattoo I didn't meant to take as a subject something related with Aztecs.
If you have in mind to get a tattoo you have to be very committed. You will see that drawing on your skin for your entire life: you could remove it with the laser surgery, but you will have a kind of shadows in place of your tattoo (also, it costs a lot to do this operation).
An advice I could give is to choose at the base of the meaning of the tattoo, instead of only its appearance. Of course, you have to like the design, because it's the first thing that strikes the attention, but it is much better if your tattoo represents something really important to you (an ideal, a special moment of your life...).
Also, you have to choose a professional studio, because you could have infections if the insttruments are not well sterilised. You shouldn't turn a beautiful experience into a nightmare, isn't it?
I got my tattoo on my left arm (in the biceps zone) and it hadn't been painful at all. It took an hour and an half to get it, because it is not so big and complicated. You won't see the needle going in and out, because it runs very fast, but you will hear the sound of the little engine. My tattooer put on a CD and in the studio there was a piercing smell of incense.
When he finished, he gave me a vaseline cream I had to rub on the skin for two weeks and then he said to me to buy an almond oil to keep the zone hydrated (it is a wound). All went well, so I am satisfied.
Some time ago, I planned to get a second tattoo and I fixed an appointment for the 12th of Februry. This day is not so far, so I am very excited. I will show the drawing I have chosen on that day.
I love tattoos because I think that they can show who you really are, your passions, your pain, your beliefs.
The body is like a big canvas you can fill with emotions and colours. It doesn't matter if you don't want to explain the meaning of every tattoo you have, because they're there only for you.
They represents all the obstacles you have overcome through the years.
Be proud of them.
Stay tuned!
Yours, Silvia
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