Tattoo's

A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.

DON ED HARDY, Douglas Kent Hall's Prison Tattoos

Tattoos fulfill a need to inscribe the self as an individual.

MARGO DEMELLO, Bodies of Inscription

Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.

DOUGLAS KENT HALL, Prison Tattoos

Tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.

MICHELLE DELIO, Tattoo: The Exotic Art of Skin Decoration

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  http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Do-People-Get-Tattoos?&id=5220931

The article above explains in the most simpilist ways.  People get tattoos as a form of freedom, self expression, rebellion, affiliations, connection, express love, religion, belief, spiritual, remembrance, and to show what has happened in their lives.  They go through the pain to show what they feel strongly about. The pain they go through with the tattoo makes what they have marked on them a part of themselves.  Not just image places upon their bodies.

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This topic is what my project is all about.  People and their tattoos.  It is about how people are using their bodies as history books writing what most important to them on themselves.  It is about learning about these people through the imagery they decided to have placed on themselves.  Every tattoo has a meaning I have found through my project even if it just a story behind them getting it.  There is no tattoo that exists that has nothing to be said or has no explanation to it.   This term is what all of my project is about in a way.

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