Tatto For You

We are a launching our eleventh annual Tattooed Poets Project with Cody Wilson, who shared these amazing tattoos: Cody explained: "I’m a big fan of Nietzsche’s thoughts on the role of art, especially in The Birth of Tragedy . Nietzsche argues that we need a balance of order and disorder, and that these things compliment one another. Apollo , on my right leg, represents this as a patron of art: he was a symbol of reason and pragmatism for the Greeks. Dionysus , on my left, was also a patron of the arts, the god of wine and theater, and often represented disorder or a detachment from reason. I think in writing poetry, there’s a liminal space that we have to balance when we commit ourselves to the poem while also detaching ourselves from it in order to let it do its own thing. So often in life have I been Dionysian and craved the Apollonian, and vice versa. Having each god face each other on each leg was a sort of tribute to this. These pieces are modeled after Greek pottery from ...

At the end of last summer, in Bowling Green, I met Ryota ( @steeal_by_sicks ), who told me he was a fashion designer/artist visiting the U.S. from Kyoto, Japan. We had some difficulty communicating, but he shared this neck tattoo he designed, which incorporates what he called "life symbols." Thanks to Ryota for sharing this cool tattoo with us on Tattoosday! This entry is ©2018 Tattoosday. If you are seeing this on another website 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.