People look at me and see my arms sleeved in ink and they say to me, “how can someone so feminine and beautiful destroy herself like that.” I share the drawings and the meanings behind my artwork and I start to see a whole new respect develop for me. My Tattoos are painful; from the needle poking directly into my arm to the sorrowful memories that the artwork represents throughout my life. Tattoos for me are a form of therapy, expression and art on the places of my body that I can constantly stare at daily. I want the drawings to remind me of the tough experiences I have endured, survived and conquered. I have chose to put my artwork in places that others may see so people will ask me what they mean because I believe that I can help people heal or just get through whatever struggles they may be going through by sharing my stories. I express my life story in color on my left arm, explaining what portrays my childhood and how I think it will be the day I die. The characters, Jack and Sally, from the movie Nightmare before Christmas, are expressing their love for each other underneath the moonlight. This drawing represents what we are taught as children, which is; “You will fall in love and live happily ever after.
The reason this means so much to me is because 6 years ago I was in an abusive relationship and it was really hard for me to leave because I wanted the fairytale to desperately come true for me. Above my Elbow is a drawing of a Band-Aid and a stitched patch healing the wounds on a cartooned heart to demonstrate heartbreak throughout life. I served 12 years in the Army with my best friend who passed away coming home from Iraq. He had this idea to create a patch that would represent our unit camaraderie right before his final deployment. The patch is a skull with an aviator helmet; two M-16 rifles crossed behind the skull with our section logo in the background. I tattooed this patch on my inner bicep with his dog tags hanging from the rifle tip. The final drawing on the upper left arm, above the patched heart is called “Judgment Day”. A Saint is standing at the golden gates under the blue clouds of heaven. A female is standing before him in the bare with beautiful angel wings but there is a devils tail attached to her backside. There are two cherubs flying outward pointing at the devil’s tail in awe. This drawing specifies we all sin, its natural, but you have to make decisions to improve yourself daily.
The Essay on How Young People Represented in Eastenders and Hollyoaks
Eastenders is a British Soap Opera, first broadcast in the UK on BBC1. It’s about people who works and live in the frictional London Borough of Walford in the East End of London. The scenes usually around the Albert Square. This soap originally played in the TV as two half-hour episodes per week since 2001, for episodes are broadcast each week. It is one of the UK’s highest rated programmes. It’s ...
Black and white, on my right arm, in the inner bicep is a “Day of the Dead” female with her eyes closed leaning her forehead against a 12 gage shot gun. On the outer bicep I have a skull with a dagger going right through the head and roses surrounding the skull. On the lower arm I have Karma dolls that were a gift from New Orleans and from the top to bottom all around the arm I have a ribbon with the quote “forgive, never forget but never let them know you remember.” This drawing represents my career in the Army and the sexual harassment I endured in the military during my last deployment. It is a symbol of how hard I fought and how I had to hide the pain I was going through emotionally and still continue my mission. I have learned not to judge a book by its cover.
All people suffer, some people recover with therapy, some people try to ignore the feelings. My therapy is expressed through art on my body. I do not ever want to forget what makes me the positive, loving, friendly, strong, forgiving, happy, beautiful person that I am. For me, the tattoos are an endless reminder that no matter what I have experienced, I am smiling right at this moment and have found happiness. Through my artwork, struggles and stories I wish to help others get through their rough times and through my smile I want to give someone hope and faith.
The Essay on Disabled People
... want to achieve. In the video I saw how people with no arms were able to swim cook and do a ... from them. In life being different from the regular people is an opportunity to show them you can do ... people say that when you are disabled your limited to a bunch a things. The truth is that not having arms ... lot of things people with all their body parts can do. ...
