Swimming In Colour

@snappyshoes Fortunately I don’t go for black and white, spur of the moment side of the road tatts. More like

I always loved the film images of the Samurai’s wife, or Geisha, who when disrobing, revealed an astonishing artwork on her back. This image never left me, but for many years I thought it would be too extreme and only an option I would consider were I incarcerated for life. (For what I’m not sure, my imagination hadn’t run that far.) But as I got older, I realised that I wasn’t concerned with any connotations that having a piece like this might infer. Contrary to the popular getting a tattoo in a moment of teenage conformism , I’ve actually now chosen to have this done at a time in my life when so many people seem to regret their body art choices – after I had my children. But won’t you regret it one day? I guess there is always that possibility, but I doubt it. If I lived my life with the view that I may regret some of my choices in the future, I would feel that it was a ...

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