when considering what to get for the birthday of the single greatest person who has ever lived, my dad and i just broke it down to "what does she love?"
answer: what she loves most is family and family time.
so we scheduled a 7pm appt with dominic (http://iatattoo.com/pages/dominic.php) at infinite art in toledo where all three of us would get tattoos together. who does that?? i love them so much.
my mom went first. she wasnt very nervous because she knew from last time that it would hurt like hell (the foot is one of the most painful places to tattoo), but she was very specific. i think dominic worked with her for about an hour before she decided on what she wanted to embellish her blue flower. she took it like a champ.
she wanted the addition to her tattoo to incorporate the 3 pairs of initials that make up our little family (LR, JR, AE) and the quote that my dad decided on "and so it goes". i cant get over how beautifully it turned out.
my dads turn came next and he acted so scared i thought he'd puss out for sure, but dominic said he was playing it up for the fun. he certainly didnt take as well as mom did.
he spent the whole 15 minutes it took for dominic to tattoo him talking shit:
"men have a lower pain tolerance"
"women have to go through pain bc of childbearing."
etc.
i think it turned out exactly the way - dominic said something during our 6 hour hang today, that tattooing is like sculpting. he tries to see the image as organically of the body and his job as peeling the skin away. i think it was like that for my dad. hed been talking about putting those words on his arm for a long time. we're a family of vonnegut fans.
after both of them got their new tattoos wrapped up, they left because it was 930 at this point and my moms birthday dinner blahblah
i really wanted to get the dagger on my leg finished / filled in with whimsical, nonsensical colors and designs, but we didnt have the time. i needed to have a small black text tattoo covered, and im so happy with it. it is so beautiful. i always fall in love with men who are incredibly good at what they do (writers, musicians, chefs, athletes, any man who takes full advantage of his talent) probably because its a power thing. i therefore have an enormous crush on dominic, because his work is so, so beautiful.
outlined -
and colored in -
and my favorite pic, bc it shows how he used the quote to connect the two flowers into a complementary unit -
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