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 ...

This past weekend, I attended another wonderful Coney Island Mermaid Parade in south Brooklyn. I met a lot of great people, including Terri  ( @ivyleagueink ), who shared some amazing work, including this amazing owl covering her stomach: She credited Peeko ( @peekotattoos ) from Pyramid Ink Tattoo ( @pyramidink ) in Brooklyn with this piece. The quote, "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how," is by Friedrich Nietzsche , and pre-dates the owl. It was done at True Blue Tattoo in Maspeth, New York. She also has this amazing portrait of the Bride of Frankenstein on her thigh: Please pardon the shadow in the upper right part of the tattoo. That phenomenal piece was done by Shane O'Neill ( @shaneoneilltattooist ), who won Ink Master, Season One, and tattoos out of  Infamous Tattoo in Delaware. Thanks to Terri for sharing her amazing work with us here on Tattoosday! Great meeting you, Terri! This entry is ©2018 Tattoosday. If you are seeing this on another website...