Tattoo inspiration
Mar. 14th, 2007 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trixtahI've been wanting to get a tattoo on my back for some time, since it's a part of my body I quite like. Since my back is fairly long, I want something that doesn't detract from its shape; I don't want something blocky taking up all of it (I don't have the money or the pain tolerance for some super-duper Japanese work) or sitting in chunks. Perhaps something that consists of connected-yet-discrete objects all the way up. I was thinking of things like stars, but hm, it's a wee bit clichéd... and not a visual symbol I associate with myself.
This evening though, after some non-nerdy (heh) thinking about maths, I reminded myself of MC Escher. Ahhhh. Now, a lot of his cool work has a circular or diamond/square/triangular shape to it, but not all. This kind of thing is appealing - not so much the breadth of it, or the component shapes, but that whole notion of one shape coming out of another... and then gradually becoming fully-formed and separate. This too. Very tao-lite, I'm sure. But I definitely want colour, and for the overall trend to run diagonally over my back. Also, cute lizards (although that might be another kind of cliché, doh!).
Unfortunately, this may require more design and drawing skill than I possess. But at least I have something to ruminate on now.
This evening though, after some non-nerdy (heh) thinking about maths, I reminded myself of MC Escher. Ahhhh. Now, a lot of his cool work has a circular or diamond/square/triangular shape to it, but not all. This kind of thing is appealing - not so much the breadth of it, or the component shapes, but that whole notion of one shape coming out of another... and then gradually becoming fully-formed and separate. This too. Very tao-lite, I'm sure. But I definitely want colour, and for the overall trend to run diagonally over my back. Also, cute lizards (although that might be another kind of cliché, doh!).
Unfortunately, this may require more design and drawing skill than I possess. But at least I have something to ruminate on now.
