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August 20, 2009 on 5:53 am | In About Show, Latest news, Reviews |
I only suspected earlier that people can not have just one tattoo, but now I am sure of it. It’s an art so fascinating that anyone who experiences it once returns to it for more. There was a time when I thought that tattoos were for punks and weirdoes or at best, body builders and bikers with skull helmets. But Miami Ink TV Show made me change my mind.
Here was a bunch of extremely talented bunch of artists on whose canvass was the bodies of individuals of all shapes and sizes. These people, who walked into the tattoo parlor in Miami, had their own diverse reasons for getting a tattoo. Some brought their own designs whereas others brought only their raw ideas. And Chris Garver and his friends would work on those raw ideas until they would take the shape of a beautiful image that was then tattooed on the body of the person.
Trust me the people who walked into the parlor were no punks or weirdoes, they were people you meet everyday, in your office, stores or the tube you take to reach home every evening. Each had something special that they wanted to keep with them forever and what could be better than to get a tattoo of that as a constant reminder. A lost pet, a place they just visited, their child or parent, a girl friend or boyfriend, an haunting idea that would not leave them alone and demanded expression, it could be just anything under the sun.
Miami Ink TV Show changed the way I looked at the tattoo artists and the people who sport tattoos, for I now know what they were thinking when they sat down with the tattooist to get their skin inked. I understand that tattoo is not just a fad but a statement a person makes. It is a form of self expression and pain that accompanies the tattoo is actually an essential part of the whole cathartic experience.
Two tattoos that I have now seem insufficient to me and I am already working on the third one that I am planning to get on my ankle.
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