Ink is like mint.
Today I am going to start this story as an ink sign.0
Once dry you may not erase it.
I asked lots of questions before I decided to do a tattoo in my body.
First I've said to myself is so seductive then I thought: hell no!!! No way …I am not going to do a tattoo.
Meanwhile…The thoughts about that were hunting me and I started to wonder if…
✓If it hurts?
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✓If I choose an image and then I get tired of it?
✓And if I start feeling?
But art is not limited to paint brushes and pens. People used their own bodies as a “living canvass” to express themselves by means of the painful, yet intricate, art of tattooing.
Pre-colonial Philippines warriors and the gulot.
Tribal gulot is a black and white tattoo art.
When a person earns a gulot it means the person has killed someone.
Delicately this subject is important and call us attention to signs and marks.
For instance Moko tattoos belong to Maori culture, they use to do the tattoos on the face and all this has origin on New Zealand. Maori culture is also known because of the natural volcanic pools and baths.
Resuming symbol of inner strength.
Haida tribes, the tattooing style of the Indian tribes. They used the animal symbolism like fishes and beavers because they believed it would give them the capacities of the chosen animals.
Marquesan style is mainly based on the divinity Tiki, who is always portrayed with his eyes closed because he smells danger before he sees it. Images that are used a lot in this style are:
∆ shells (wealth),
∆ shark teeth (protection)
∆ lizards,
∆ whales,
∆ turtles,
∆ fish hooks, and so on.
The Marquesan style is a form of language in symbols.
