VivaciousSub
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Joined: 9/7/2008 From: Tampa, FL Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Icarys I have four myself. If you don't mind sharing. What do they mean? It's hard to make them out as well. I'm an old man of 40, bad vision and all. What my tats mean: Right Lower Back: an Aran Cross. It's a variety of Celtic cross where the vertical bar stands for the spiritual world, the horizontal stands for the earthly world, and the circle where the bars cross is the world we live in, a mix of the two. I got it because I'm very Irish and that part of my heritage resonates deeply with me. 2nd one is my dragons on my mid-back. The two serpents entwine around the phrase Here Be Dragons. It's from medieval Welsh cartography. Welsh cartographers were considered the best in the world, and where ships were going off into the Unknown, they would put on of the dragons there with that phrase. I got that one after I uprooted myself from all my extended family and first adult friends and moved back down here from Philadelphia to run my own business. It was a scary ass time. 3rd one is on my upper back between my shoulder blades. It says Siempre Y Siempre which is Spanish for Always and Forever...a sign of my permanence. I have manic-depression and this past New Years/Xmas was horrific, I attempted suicide for the 3rd time - it's the last, I assure everyone, I busted ass this winter to get and stay better, no mood swings in nearly a year now - and it reminds me not to quit/give up on myself. 4th and 5th compose my chestpiece. The right side is a tongue of flame, representing the fiery/passionate aspect of my personality and the left side is an icicle, representing the cooler and more rational side of me. I purposely left the middle empty as my heart always resides between these two extremes. The colors come from PET scans of people during manic episodes - bright oranges, reds and yellows, like a lit Christmas tree, and during depressive episodes - dark blues, greens and purples. Again, I live my life somewhere in the middle. I thought long and hard before getting these done, and all of them were free-hand designed by the artist I've been going to for years. I give him a general idea of the design and what I want it to represent and he does the rest. He's fantastic, runs a great studio downtown and I'd be happy to recommend local FL people to him!
< Message edited by VivaciousSub -- 9/22/2008 7:31:39 PM >
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9.8m/s^2 + VivaciousSub + ground = ouchx10^9th To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. ~ Pride and Prejudice
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