Should a tattoo have a meaning behind it?

If you're considering a tattoo try it on a t-shirt first.

If you don't think it is worth putting on a t-shirt, well...

I once saw a totally mild mannered account.
Take off his shirt &glasses &on his back he had life size portrait of kiss all band members &i couldn't help but have a double take & I then judged he was a member of the kiss army .
That said there was a thread on windsurfing about getting a tattoo after completing a forward loop .
Ive thought about getting a tattoo but I'm always putting holes in my spacesuit so i figured it would be a failure if i got one I would only end up with a massive cut right through it .
But if i do a forward loop im up for it .
I want to see windsurfing tats .
The best tattoos I ever have seen was whales &dolphins in descending size on a captain of cray fishing boat they were totally detailed &had the latin ( scientific name) underneath
Whoever was the artist was a true artist.
I have paid for all my wifes tattoos she wanted them &it was that or jewelry.
Which she hardly wears.
It made her happy all have meanings for her &saved me having to shop so all have meaning for me .
I hate shopping

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Shakende said..

Shakende said..
the true meaning behind this art.

Gs12 said..
Please explain?

I believe.
Behind all the art there is a meaning, all of them belong to different cultures background.
We should never forget our roots or lose sight of the values that bind us.
I have found the approach to tattooing to be lacking something fundamentally integral to its true and natural identity.
This, to me, reflects a lack of comprehension which in turn blocks the potential for many people to experience what lies within. The greatest misconception that most people have in the world is that a tattoo is just an object; an indelible image marked into the flesh by means of some kind of instrument that pricks the skin leaving behind a permanent mark of some kind.
I believe the tattoo experience has a rich kind of intelligence of it's own and is here right under our very noses lying dormant and silent, waiting for those who want to open themselves to it's great wisdom.
When experiencing the tattoo through the lens of the heart, one not only wakens the sleeping intelligence of the tattoo, but realigns the soul with its Source, creating what I refer to as a "soul print".

rubbish !

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Shakende said..

I believe the tattoo experience has a rich kind of intelligence of it's own and is here right under our very noses lying dormant and silent, waiting for those who want to open themselves to it's great wisdom.
When experiencing the tattoo through the lens of the heart, one not only wakens the sleeping intelligence of the tattoo, but realigns the soul with its Source, creating what I refer to as a "soul print".

All beautifully written, I like it. However, I also believe that your eye is the window to your soul, perhaps your intelligence? Look into the eyes of some of the "public art gallery" on the streets, I can't see much evidence of intelligence but patches of mangled ink images on some fools.

Take the most common bunch of fools for example. Would you go as far as saying bikes have souls and intelligence? Their tangled mess of images are out to tell the world how tough they are, and don't mess with meee, or I will call in my mates to re-arrange your face. By themselves, away from their noisy, ugly, over priced, poor excuse of a bike called Harley Davidson, they are just a boy who needs his bunch of ugly mates to back him up.

Then the fools who have ugly images on their neck, and even on their face, what self respecting people wants to deface own face like that?

What about the fools who got tattoos because their mates also had one while on one of those cheap holidays? Pissed out of the f-king mind, no idea where they were on this planet, and tried desperately to hide it when they became sober enough to realize that they messed up. Buyer's regret?

Also, the tattoo designs are copied from someone else anyway. So there is no originality whatsoever. But then we are asking too much of these fools, aren't we ?

^^^ I had to google Jimmy Swaggart...