Tattoosday (A Tattoo Blog): Octopus

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Friday, January 17, 2020

Kristen's Blue-Ringed Octopus

I met Kristen at the New York Empire State Tattoo Expo (@nyempirestatetattooexpo) back in 2018 and she kindly allowed me to snap a couple of shots of the blue-ringed octopus gracing her left arm:

This stunning tattoo was inked by Miryam Lumpini (@miryamlumpini), who is based in Los Angeles.

Thanks to Kristen for sharing her awesome tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Friday, April 19, 2019

Allison Wilkins, an Octopus and a Poem in Greek (The Tattooed Poets Project)

Our next tattooed poet is Allison Wilkins, who sent us a couple of her tattoos:

Allison explained the origins of this octopus:

"The octopus tattoo was drawn by my artist friend, Lib Hedgepath, and inked by tattoo artist Ethan (@ethan_franklin_jrt) at James River Tattoo (@jamesrivertattoo) (Lynchburg, VA, 1337 Main Street). I got the tattoo in 2013, a transitional year for me: between the acceptance of and publication of my first book, Girl Who; this was also the year I got divorced. The octopus became a kind of totem animal for me, a sea beast that was highly intelligent and adaptable (I’m a Pisces). Also, it represents the place, Greece, where I eventually found a second home. But at the time I got my tattoo, I just associated Greece with starting over and living authentically."

Then there is this piece on her back:

Allison notes this is a poem by Titos Patríkios and it:

"... was inked by James River Tattoo in 2012. For me, it marked falling in love with a place: Greece. I went there for a summer workshop and met three other incredible women. We designated ourselves Siren Sisters, explored every nook and cranny of that island, ate delicious meals, and wrote poems. I have never felt more connected to a group of women or to myself. This poem, 'My Flesh,' came from a collection of poems that I was reading that summer. My friend, Joanna Eleftheriou, helped me to translate the poem, but also to learn it in Greek. So I suppose, this also marks my beginning of learning to speak Modern Greek."

Allison sent along her poem "Wants New Mythology" from her collection Girl Who:

Wants New Mythology

Her myth begins coming up from the sea

and ends with two sparrows in flight. In between,

the narrative will unfold, but not neatly.

And it won’t be obvious. There’s a long

litany of gods, a token heroine of divine birth.

There will be dancing and chickpeas.

Barrels of white wine. Island moonshine.

After opening in medias res,

(the island god coming up from the sea,)

there follows a long dissertation

on the texture of sand. Then

another about the slight burn

of Greek sun. Then she will skip

to honeysuckle plucked

by an ambiguous hand.

And sea urchins. Rock formations at Sikamia.

She will refuse all battle scenes

and trips to the underworld.

She will make no mention of desire

or music. Yes, she’ll leave the final image

alone: two sparrows, side by side in flight

before parting. One heading left, the other right.

~ ~ ~

Allison Wilkins is the author of Girl Who. Other poems and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Superstition Review, and The Lyric. She is the assistant director for Writing Workshops in Greece
(@WWIGThasos). She tweets @wilkins_poet.

Thanks to Allison for sharing her tattoos and poem with us here on the Tattooed Poets Project on Tattoosday!

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Monday, April 15, 2019

Rage Hezekiah's Octopus (The Tattooed Poets Project)

Our next tattooed poet is Rage Hezekiah, who sent us this photo of her tattoo:

Rage tells us:

This is the only tattoo I've designed on my own, and I got it about 11 years ago at Black and Blue Tattoo (@blackandbuetattoo) in San Francisco. The artist, Micah, no longer works there, but it was only my second tattoo and Micah was very comforting. Octopi have had a meaningful presence in my life for quite some time, and I like to think that all their arms are for holding. Octopi remind me that I'm held.

Rage also sent us the following poem, "Psilocybin," which she notes Is about the only time she tried hallucinogens. She added, "My experience that day solidified my need to put this tattoo on my body where I could see it every day."

PSILOCYBIN

You and I ride our bikes to Ipswich River

and I dispense the only advice

I’ve been given. Just let them take you, I say,

placing a small handful of caps in your palm.

We sit on the muddy shore eating tuna,

anticipating magic. A slow undulation sets in,

its pulse warming the wet ground, and we lie

watching trees become hands holding everything

to the sky. I can smell my own sweat

and I’m weeping about my attempts to mask this scent.

You’re crying too, about how you hate your cunt

and I’m telling you Your everything is beautiful.

We watch a shallow puddle teem with the life

of tiny organisms. Pressing our arms into the mess,

we roll around and giggle. For hours we swim and sing,

until we mount our bikes again, stopping at a farm stand

to fondle the summer berries. Lambs bound about

their pastures and I watch your face collapse

as you realize they’re food, the awful truth

of cycles. The meadow’s full of alyssum

and clover, the August breeze sweet.

I want it all for as long as it will last.

~ ~ ~

Rage Hezekiah is a Cave Canem and MacDowell Fellow who earned her MFA from Emerson College. She is a recipient of the Saint Botolph Emerging Artist Award in Literature and was nominated for Best New Poets, 2017. She is a 2018 Vella Chapbook Award Winner, and her chapbook is forthcoming with Paper Nautilus Press. Stray Harbor, her debut full length collection of poems is being published in 2019 by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in Fifth Wednesday, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Cape Rock, Salamander, Tampa Review, and West Branch, as well as other journals. Her writing is featured in various anthologies including Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out, All We Can Hold: poems of motherhood, and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. You can find more of her work at https://www.ragehezekiah.com/. You can also find her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ragehezekiahpoet/.

Thanks to Rage for sharing her tattoo and poem with us here on the Tattooed Poets Project on Tattoosday!

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Christopher Bakken's Special Octopus on The Tattooed Poets Project

Today's tattooed poet is Christopher Bakken, who shared this photo with us:

Christopher's tattoo has a great origin story:

"The original line drawing for my tattoo was done by famed cookbook author, chef, and artist Mollie Katzen (best known for The Moosewood Cookbook) who kindly agreed to fashion some illustrations for my 2013 culinary memoir Honey, Olives, Octopus. It was the first drawing she sent me in the initial stages of production and I liked it so much I decided it should be with me permanently. It was inked by Mike of Mad Mike's Tattoos (@mad_mikes_tattoo_n_piercing) in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

The tattoo is a daily reminder of my relationship to Greece (the real and imagined landscape of so much of my poetry) and specifically the Aegean Sea. I spend my summers on the island of Thasos, which means for most of the year the tattoo reminds me of my painful distance from that place. As a cook, I believe in being in close contact with the sources of my food; in a place like Thasos, that's an easy ambition to attain, since it's possible to source exquisite produce and seafood without traveling more than a mile. An amateur spearfisherman, I spend as much time as possible underwater, gathering sea urchins, fish, and taking an octopus now and then. Of all the creatures in the sea, I most love the octopus for its intelligence and otherworldly beauty. Unfortunately for them, octopus are also delicious. But the single octopus on my arm reminds me to only take one at a time (if they are in season and the kitchen asks for it) and to respect the creature and its habitat."

Christopher also sent us a related poem from his most recent book, Eternity & Oranges (Pitt Poetry Series, 2016):

Troppo Mare

Troppo mare. Ne abbiamo veduto abbastanza di mare.

--Cesare Pavese

You already tried to drown me three times.

Yucatan. Thasos. Crete.

And I admit I deserve your violence.

Too much doubt. Too much surface weight.

But I resent you even more tonight

for what you did, just now, before dark:

such redundant perfection, going beyond blue

to blood-purple past the escarpment,

spilling me and the whole island off your ledge.

I’ve had too much of abundance.

I’ve had too much of you, sea.

Too much of your clarity. Too much depth.

Still, I steady myself from this height

for another dive, stubborn as that crab

whose torn leg you carved out with your tongue.

I rescued it from the bottom this morning,

a lock of sea grass still tangled in the claw.

I have clung like that, watching my fingers slip.

Take every hollow carapace and shattered limb,

grind it all to nothing, along with me.

Before then, let me surface once again.

I ask, in the holy name of what is less.

~ ~ ~

Christopher Bakken is the author of three books of poetry--most recently Eternity & Oranges--as well as a work of nonfiction, Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table. He teaches at Allegheny College and is director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki & Thasos and Culinary Crete.

Thanks to Christopher for sharing his cool tattoo and wonderful poem with us here on Tattoosday's Tattooed Poets Project!

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Total Eclipse of the Art

Back on August 21, 2017, I met Michelle near Bowling Green in lower Manhattan. Everyone was out experiencing the solar eclipse, and I started talking to her about her cool tattoos.

An artist she only identified as Alex from the Bronx, was responsible for this work on her arm:

She also credited Giovanny from Rebel Ink Tattoos (@rebel_ink_tattoo) in Queens with the following work on her leg:

Thanks to Michelle for sharing her work with us here on Tattoosday!

Thursday, September 13, 2018

An Octopus On The Platform (Alphabet Game Interlude)

For the past week on Tattoosday, we've been playing the Alphabet Game (see the recap here), as we travel the subways seeking out tattoos, going in alphabetical order. We have previously seen work on the A, B, C, D, E and F trains, so next up was the G train.

10:28 AM: I take the F to Carroll Street in Brooklyn where I plan to switch for the G.

It's my first real break of the day, since the G is a pretty isolated line in Brooklyn. I've managed to avoid any intermediary lines between trains, but once I do the G, I have to take it back to the F and then take the F to the J. There's a way to get off/exit and walk to the J, but that takes too far out of the way to my liking.

10:36 AM: On a G, missed a shot at a Family Guy sleeve, considering switching back to a Queens-bound G.

Switched at 4th Avenue/9th Street and, while waiting for another G, met Dan on the platform, who had a tattoo too good to pass up:

This amazing black and gray octopus on the back of Dan's leg was inked by Scott Move (@scottmove) at Parliament Tattoo (@parliamenttattoo) in London.

So, while technically not part of the Alphabet Game, per se, this amazing piece was spotted during the activity, so we're including it as part of the overall process. I mean, I couldn't pass this up now, could I?

At 10:42 AM, I boarded a Queens-bound G, and resumed my quest.

Thanks to Dan for sharing his awesome tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Angela, a Peacock and Sisterly Feathers

Today is my sister Alicia's birthday and, although she doesn't have any tattoos, she loves peacocks, and this story involves a sister, so it seemed an appropriate post for the occasion.

Back in May, I was in Herndon, Virginia, for a work training and I was hanging out with one of my colleagues, Angela, who has lots of ink, including this lovely peacock and pair of butterflies on her back:

Angela credited Daniel Baker (@danielbakertattoos) from Tattoorolo in Corning, New York, with this lovely work.

She also has the lovely feather on her leg:

Angela explained first about the feather, which she got inked up n Rochester:

"My sister and I were getting matching tattoos and ... we went with a feather idea and she didn't care what feather and I said well I'd really like just a peacock feather. Since I got the peacock tattoo on my back ... people are inundating me with peacock stuff, family and friends ... I like it. So I was like I just want an individual feather. She wasn't 100% wanting an individual feather and she loves octopus, so she got an octopus tentacle on her leg in the same spot, but in the middle of the octopus tentacle, she got a design that looks like the eye of the peacock feather ... so that was out 'matching' sister tattoos, if you will, with our own individuality in the tattoos."

Angela sent me a photo of the companion tattoos below:

Thanks to Angela for sharing her cool tattoos with us here on Tattoosday, and for letting me share them on my sister's birthday too!

Friday, June 29, 2018

Taylor's Undersea Tattoo

Last month, I spotted Taylor shopping at a local drug store in Brooklyn, on a particularly warm day. She had this cool thigh tattoo and was kind enough to share it with us:

Taylor explained, "I've just always loved fish, mermaids, the ocean," noting that the mermaid is "purple for my grandma, because that's her favorite color." She also added, "we've got Hank from Finding Dory up in there." Those unfamiliar with the film should not Hank is the octopus.

Taylor credited the work to Erica Flannes (@ericaflannes) at Red Rocket Tattoo (@redrockettattoo) in Manhattan.

Thanks to Taylor for sharing her cool undersea thigh tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Catherine's Marine Life Leg (Tattoosday Goes to Philly)

Last month, at the 20th Annual Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention (@villainarts), I met Catherine, who had an amazingly colorful right leg:

That's a sea turtle and a jellyfish and, on the back of her calf, is this blue-ringed octopus:

Catherine credited the work to Steve De Los Reyes (@stevedelosreyes) from Ink Kings Tattoo in Otsego, Minnesota.

She explained that the blue-ringed octopus and the jellyfish are two of the most poisonous creatures in the ocean. However, she pointed out, the sea turtle can withstand these animals dangerous venom. She transplants that fact to her own life, and pulls strength from the image of the sea turtle.

Thanks to Catherine for sharing her cool tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Sierra's Seaworthy Tattoos at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade

Last month, at the 35th annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade, I met Sierra, who was kind enough to share her appropriately-themed tattoos on her sides.

First, this octopus:

She credited this work to Siege (@siegeart) from Revival Art Collective (@revivalartcollective) in Phoenix, Arizona.

On the other side of her torso, she has this tattoo:

This one she credited to Moeh Haywood (@Moehskee) who tattoos out of Crimson Hilt Tattoo (@crimsonhiltattoo) in Denver.

Sierra told me the jellyfish and octopus tattoos are a nod to the fact that she studied marine biology.

Thanks to Sierra for sharing her cool tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Jill's Mermaid (35th Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade)

This past Saturday, I went out to Coney Island to catch the 35th Annual Mermaid Parade (@medmaidparade). This annual tradition has been ideal for Tattoosday inkspotting and this year was a banner year, having interviewed a dozen or so folks with cool tattoos, which we'll be sharing in the weeks to come.

Our first contributor is Jill. who shared this theme-related piece:

Jill's daughter had a bit to do with this tattoo, especially the top section. "Make me a mermaid," she said, and Jill went to her artist, Timmy Cronin (@TimmyTattooCronin) from Timmy Tattoo in Huntington, New York.

"I like his style," Jill told me, and I have to agree. I actually met Timmy at a supermarket in Brooklyn seven years ago (recounted here) and have featured work from his shop a few times over the years.

Thanks to Jill for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Monday, May 1, 2017

One More Tattoo on a Poet! Natasha Dennerstein's Awesome Octopus

National Poetry Month may be over, but I couldn't close the chapter on this year's Tattooed Poets Project without sharing this breathtaking tattoo from one of our "alumni," Natasha Dennerstein:

Natasha first appeared on Tattoosday back in 2012 here.

Natasha was our first New Zealand poet, but she has relocated to Oakland, California and recently got this phenomenal piece from Jeramie Hamilton (@thethickwillstick) at Scholar Tattoo (@scholartattoo_sf) in San Francisco. She notes that "the tentacles come right around as if to attempt to wrap around my neck."

She shared the following poem, which she feels is a good companion to this tattoo. The poem, "Clifftop," is from her collection Anatomize from Norfolk Press. She collaborated often with an Australian-born, L.A. artist named Kaye Freeman (@kfreeman1701) and Natasha included a painting Kaye did on piano-roll paper in conjunction with this poem. "This was part of a joint series we did called Skeleton Dreaming," she told us.

In case you can't read from the image, here is the poem again, by itself:

Clifftop

On a Wild Turkey night under an Ativan moon I stagger around

the cliffs to lift my dark spirits. One too many times you arrive

with the slime of her on you and expect me to lick it away. I

slip or fall or plunge into the bitch-slap, ice-cube sea where the

fish nibble my flesh and gropers take sustenance from my

innards til all that's left is bones, a home for hermit-crabs the

dome of my skull. Plankton colonize my ribcage. My weary

bones roll on rocks: I've found my salty home on the seabed

floor, where currents pass through me and gently carress me.

My heart is devoured by bottom-feeding creatures of the

deep. A lobster eats my pancreas; a crab consumes my pituitary

gland. They may end up on your table as you have a penchant

for seafood. Take me, sea, I'm yours; eat me, lover, I'm fish-

food.

~ ~ ~

You can read more about Natasha Dennerstein here.

Thank to Natasha for sharing her wonderful poem and tattoo with us here on Tattoosday's Tattooed Poets Project!

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Sunday, March 12, 2017

Brandon's Tattoos

Last summer I met a gentleman named Brandon Latham at the New York Empire State Tattoo Expo (@nyempirestatetattooexpo). He had just been tattooed by J.J. Ohlinger (@jjohlinger), who was working the show.

Check it out:

Photo courtesy of Brandon Latham

Brandon, who is an artist in Greenville, South Carolina, explained:

"I wanted to draw a tattoo, so I drew an octopus and shaded it and got the look that I wanted and then I gave it to a professional [Ohlinger] to make it into a stencil, to make it a cohesive piece, we kind of collaborated on it ... the octopus is a creature that adapts to its surroundings it has three hearts, and so I kinda did that to represent my wife, my daughter and myself ... it's a creative unique character .... as soon as I thought about doing it, I saw them everywhere ... I thought about it for a long time because I'm not a very impulsive person, it took me a long time to even get a tattoo."

Ohlinger did a fine job placing the tattoo and making sure it flowed with the contour of Brandon's body. It's a great piece with solid linework and excellent detail.

Brandon also has this anatomical heart on the back of his calf, which Ohlinger also tattooed, back in 2014:

Brandon explained that "the different figures on the side[s] represent different things about [his] life." For example, the cat wearing the hat is "a Russian symbol that means even if you are born in mediocrity, you san still strive above and be an aristocrat," or, in other words, "just because you're born poor doesn't mean you have to continue to be poor, you can strive above that."

He also described the crow reading the book as a steampunk image, noting that "the crow, which is the only animal that analyzes human behavior ... has decided to take care of the children" after the kids' parents have gone off to work.

Brandon is a runner (10 half marathons and a couple of marathons), which explains the cool image of the hare with a tortoise shell on its back.

And the airplane, he explained "is a piper cub airplane, the plane that my dad used to work on, and my daughter's name is Piper."

The details in and around the heart really make this a cool combination of tattoos.

Thanks to Brandon for sharing his work with us here on Tattoosday!

Friday, August 5, 2016

Stormy's "Octoface"

Yesterday I recalled meeting Matt on the West 4th Street subway platform. I got on the train with him and Stormy and they shared their tattoos.

This is what Stormy offered up from her collection:

This is a case of someone being a fan of an artist's work, and travelling to another state just to be tattooed by them.

Stormy explained that she admired the work of Matt Kerley (@mattitude) at Glenn's Tattoo Service (@glennstattooservice) in Wilmington, North Carolina, so she journeyed south just to get something done by him. This hauntingly cool design was her souvenir from the trip.

Thanks to Stormy for sharing her tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Sunday, April 24, 2016

The Tattooed Poets Project: Richard Foerster

When we launched the month with Lee Sharkey's tattoo, I received an email from one of her fellow Maine poets, Richard Foerster, with the following picture attached:

Well, you just don't send me a picture of an awesome tattoo and leave it at that, so I thanked him for the photo and formally invited him to participate in this year's offering of tattooed poets. And Richard was kind enough to oblige with the following explanation:

"Cephalopods have fascinated me since I first saw them in aquariums—how they can camouflage themselves by instantly changing color, how they can change shape to appear large and aggressive or to squeeze themselves down to hide in tight spaces, how they use jet propulsion and can zip away in a cloud of ink. And they are intelligent: I once read about an octopus in a tank at a research lab. The staff were puzzled by the nightly disappearance of fish from another tank across the room. So they set up video surveillance and were surprised to see the octopus lift the lid on its tank, crawl down and across the floor, then up into the fish tank where it enjoyed a midnight snack before crawling back to its own tank. There’s something admirable about that stealthy intelligence and cunning instinct to survive.

I’ve nine tattoos (thus far) and like to think of them as guardian totems. The octopus is one of my spirit animals. I worked with the very talented Jeremiah Loui (Instagram here) at Iron Works Tattoo in Portsmouth, NH to design this upper chest and shoulder piece for my right side to counterbalance a large tribal moko on my left. We worked from photos I found on the Internet. My only stipulation was that the design be colorful, massive, realistic, and 'non-threatening.' Jeremiah achieved exactly what I had envisioned. The tattoo was completed in about 10 hours over the course of three sessions."

Richard also kindly shared the following poem, the subject of which he says will "probably" serve as a model for his next tattoo:

Moon Jellyfish

Aurelia aurita

No planet could keep so many moons in tow.

They drift, constantly unconstellating

around you in their milky way. Even to want

to cradle one in your palm would compromise

their elegance: the opaque domes

are stippled with a compass rose and trail,

like auroras, fine voluted veils. Gravity

would spell their deaths. Voiceless, blind,

they seem oracular—mouths and eyes

fixed since the first pulse of the world’s womb

on a source beyond orbits of perception. To swim

among them is to float as if in the pure We are

that scorched the oceans into life. Watch

how your mere expended breath, on its own

celestial path, must break into their midst.

~ ~ ~

Richard Foerster was born in the Bronx, New York, and holds degrees in English literature from Fordham College and the University of Virginia. He is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently River Road (Texas Review Press, 2015). Foerster has been the recipient of numerous honors, including the “Discovery”/The Nation Award, Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize, a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships. Since the 1980s, his work has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry. He has worked as a lexicographer, educational writer, typesetter, teacher, and editor of the literary magazines Chelsea and Chautauqua Literary Journal. For the last 30 years, he has lived on the coast of southern Maine.

Visit his page on Amazon here.

Thanks to Richard for sharing his awesome tattoo and poem with us here on Tattoosday's Tattooed Poets Project!

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Tattoosday (A Tattoo Blog)

Friday, January 17, 2020

Kristen's Blue-Ringed Octopus

Friday, April 19, 2019

Allison Wilkins, an Octopus and a Poem in Greek (The Tattooed Poets Project)

Monday, April 15, 2019

Rage Hezekiah's Octopus (The Tattooed Poets Project)

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Christopher Bakken's Special Octopus on The Tattooed Poets Project

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Total Eclipse of the Art

Thursday, September 13, 2018

An Octopus On The Platform (Alphabet Game Interlude)

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Angela, a Peacock and Sisterly Feathers

Friday, June 29, 2018

Taylor's Undersea Tattoo

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Catherine's Marine Life Leg (Tattoosday Goes to Philly)

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Sierra's Seaworthy Tattoos at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Jill's Mermaid (35th Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade)

Monday, May 1, 2017

One More Tattoo on a Poet! Natasha Dennerstein's Awesome Octopus

Sunday, March 12, 2017

Brandon's Tattoos

Friday, August 5, 2016

Stormy's "Octoface"

Sunday, April 24, 2016

The Tattooed Poets Project: Richard Foerster

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