haha I figured someone would ask but I didn’t know if anyone would care.
The triangles are the alchemy symbols for air and earth and I want it in all black to represent that all I need is clean air and good earth and everything else will follow. Keeping simplicity in my life is what I really want.
To be honest I’m personally not a fan of the design which basically consists of a bunch of black lines. I understand the sentiment but for me I prefer a more visually and creative image rather than an elaborate tribalish design. But that is just my personal opinion and I would not want to be judgmental of anyone else’s ideas so get what you want and best of luck to you. Definitely have a good artist clean it up though so it would translate to a durable tattoo.
at first glance it looks like the star of david and some arabic writing on top. Your chest is such a prime area to do some great work, i would definitely clean up the design or go about it a different way. At the end of the day if it makes you happy, that’s all that matters. But i agree that i prefer a more visually appealing tattoo instead of something with “deep meaning”. People try to cram way too much symbolism into tattoos, keep it simple and grab a great artist to run with it.
Oh and good luck on your sternum, it was pretty brutal for me.
I agree and I like more complex peices but I have fell in love with heavy blackwork. I may have to re do it with more line weight variation. My back upper arms sides and thighs are going to be for more complex work but I want it all to be rooted by the simplicity of this peice. I am an artist and attach meaning to all of the work I do and examine why I do the art that I do so meanings just develop out of things I am interested in.
I also like work like Heather McLeans
the first tattoo on her page is something I would like to get something similar to.
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