drewseph

Intense Introspective Entry Ahead.

So...
Alot of people seem to want to understand what my ink is about. These things always happen with tattoos; it never really changes. To understand meaningful ink is to unstand that person...whole lifestyles and personalities go into tattoos. Whether it's something purely aesetic that someone likes to something filled with multidudes of life events and choices.

My knuckles are just a part of things i beleive, value, and live. I'm not going to go into the stuff i have, or the sleeve i'm working on for the nexts several weeks. My Iron & Wine hands arn't for the artist (whom i do enjoy) but for their metaphor in life. The style they are in is from a women who owns a tattoo shop which i really grew up with from their involvment with skateboarding locally.

Iron & Wine sybolizes a broader sense of work and play. I believe in karma, and have always clung to the every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction principle in both science and life. To me, everything has an on going iron and wine side to it. The iron part of life is the compromises, hard work, and general obligations which entitle or result in what you really want - the wine part of things. Wine is relaxing; ritzy and romantic. It's the part of things you strive for through all your work and committment. This relationship is reassuring that everything you're putting up with for some goal. Something you want bad enough to put up with all the stress associated with reaching what you really want, what completes you and makes you feel good.

My tattoo is just a poetic way of expressing that.