About
35
Female
Born in Vermont
Lives in Berkeley
1 Tattoo on my right hip
1 long scar that begins behind my right hear and crosses to the the other side of my neck
24 chicken pox scars
Many people spend their lives skimming the surface. Chatting in bars, seeking at parties, for meaningful interactions, the deeper connections, the experiences that leave you with a story to tell. We are cut from the fabric of our parents, our hometowns, our initial experiences. But then we sow the pieces together, and how we redesign, redirect, allign our lives, and how we tell our stories, well that is our creation story.
This blog is designed to scratch the surface. To explore the things that have left a mark, perhaps accidentally, perhaps on purpose. It explores the stories we tell, how we share them, who we tell them to, and how we live and die with them. I believe in the power of story telling. That when one person’s truth is told, than universal truths are discovered that cross race, religion, and age.
This blog, hopefully with your help, is also designed to explore if their is a relationship between how we tattoo and scars our bodies, and how we are tattooing and scarring the planet.
I find the submissions through people I know, people I meet, people I pursue, and hopefully…you. So please, scratch the surface, tell me what lies beneath.
artpredator said,
July 16, 2008 at 7:39 am
i have no tattoos but a fine collection of scars from a life lived fully including one on my right hand from setting up camp at burning man 2001 and another form pulling a hmmn not a rickshaw but a human pulling wheelbarrel kinda thing, again at burning man but in 1997…
i also have a poem called the tattooed lady which i haven’t posted yet…
like your friend dan, i am a huge fan of carver and using a poem of his as an on-going theme in a set of posts about looking for work …
i hope to come back to see how your blog evolves and i hope you’ll check out mine!
rick mobbs said,
February 15, 2009 at 4:30 pm
nice to see artpredator here. tells me i need to get out more.