Chaos/ order, openness/ restraint, the safety of knowing and the excitement of not knowing… I like my patterns to have a tension… between repetition that gives it a sense of intention, but changing often enough to give it a sense of unpredictably and aliveness. I like designs that ask as many questions as they answer.
“It ain’t for me, but at least it keeps him outta pool halls.”
-mom
Supposedly there are willow trees that naturally contain Asiprin in their bark, and this bark is a favorite snack of beavers, and inside a beavers ass are glands where this compound accumulates, and native Americans would harvest these glands and secrete their oil as a natural painkiller. So at some point in human history, there was likely one Native American that discovered this by having an “ah, ha!” moment when he noticed that, of all the parts of all the animals that can be eaten, every time they ate that specific gland in a beavers ass, their headaches would go away. I think about that person a lot.
Also I did this tattoo on a great guy @jonnyleicht
Ships have always been a part of tattoo imagery… obviously the ocean is magical and worth keeping a connection with… but I think ships also remind me how wonderful it feels to be in the middle of nowhere. To feel small and insignificant and temporary with 360° of horizon all around me. If I am temporary and insignificant, and all my worries are contained within me, then they must be even smaller and less significant.
Thanks for the trust @drhime
I grew up thinking that the future would inevitably be better than the present. Full of flying cars and cures for cancer. This morning my son asked me if I thought elephants would still exist when he’s a grown-up.