These tattoos are more “just cuz (:”
Clown rat flash piece.
Skull flash piece
Tooth flash piece I got impulsively at a market.
Zippo Lighter from a 4/20 flash event
Socks that my friend and I got as a bogo deal (they have socks with oranges on them)
Star belly tat (my newest) that I got so it would peek out when I wear super low cut tops/ tops with peekaboo cut outs
These are the tattoos that have some amount of meaning.
The bridge was a flash piece but I chose it because it reminds me of one of my favourite books, The Fall by Albert Camus.
The puzzle piece doesn’t really mean anything, but I got it on a trip to Portland so it is sort of my souvenir tattoo.
The Pisces symbol because I am a Pisces ♓️
The snake in the flowers was my first tattoo and I wanted it to be vaguely reminiscent of the Three of Wands tarot card. I wanted an ambiguous orientation because the cards more or less represents the future with the reverse meaning saying you will face obstacles, and the upright meaning saying it’ll be smooth sailing. I got it during my first year of college, and I didn’t know what I had ahead of me.
“Nothing Matters” partially because of my obsession with existential philosophy, and partially because of the lyrics from Wolfman by The Front Bottoms- “Nothing Matters, the importance of nothing”
Last, my baby ❤️ my lovely little baby puppy man
-I have my best friends childhood teddy bear tattooed with her initial “C” in it, and she has my childhood teddy bear with my initials ”SR”
-I have a jester my friend drew for a flyer and in her handwriting the word “smegma” in the balloon the jester is holding because it’s the title of my favorite song my friend wrote (linked the song btw) she has a rat she drew and in my handwriting “sewer rat” which is my nickname and my tag
-me and my friend were walking around her neighborhood in the sunset district and found an old book on the sidewalk and it had so many cool drawings/symbols in it and both of our favorite shape is a spiral so we each got one of the symbols from the book on our hand
I hate wearing glasses. I hate feeling them on my face, but contacts would be my own personal hell. Please give me the motivation to wear them like I should
My name is Shawna. I responded “oh my god! My name is Shawn, too!” Then stuttered through saying “wait, no, that’s not my name.” and since I was so anxious I just rambled for way to long about the difference between our names.
Why not go through the process of blending those images yourself? Why not use process as an experiment? Why AI? What part are you playing? What makes it yours?
I think AI is impersonal. I think it is unethical when it has relied on the theft of actual people’s actual physical (and because of the nature of art, often time emotional) labor. I also think it is unnecessary in creating art. I also think the environmental impacts are atrocious. I also think AI’s biggest supporters are being maliciously ignorant because it’s a fun new toy.
Is it ease? Is it efficiency? People talk about accessibility as if children don’t use crayons and stickers! As if graffiti artists don’t use postal labels as sticker, as if sand mandalas don’t exist, as if cardboard and tape aren’t in over abundance.