Hey guys. I posted a work in progress of this, but today I had it finished. It hurt like a you know what, but it was so worth it. I really couldn’t be

Hey guys. I posted a work in progress of this, but today I had it finished. It hurt like a you know what, but it was so worth it. I really couldn’t be more satisfied with it. I’m going in a month to have it touched up to make it PERFECT! It really looks amazing though, and I’d recommend Moth and Dagger to ANYONE in the Bay Area looking for a tattoo. See below for the artist’s contact information and a brief speech about my tattoo for anyone who didn’t see it in my first post.

“design: yours truly

tattoo artist: J.D. http://sweetmiserytattoo.com/home.html

studio: http://mothanddaggertattoo.com/artists-portfolios/

This tattoo isn’t so much a representation, but a rosetta stone of what’s most important to me. Read on to learn a brief piece of my story.

First off, I was an only adopted child for the first 19 years of my life. Over the next two years I moved out, got curious and connected with my bio-dad’s family in Ventura/Camarillo (thanks to internet research) and much more recently my bio-mom’s side in Arizona (thanks to facebook!). I now have two half sisters I visit frequently and a giant extended family to still get to know.

The first three dominoes “say” 06/14/90 (me), second 01/11/62(mom), and the third (though wonky for design purposes) 02/09/51(dad). My mom hasn’t been taking the “finding myself” thing so well, and no matter how much I tell her I love her, she feels like I’m slipping away. This is my way of showing her that I’m willing to go through pain to inscribe how important she is into my arm. When I was a little tyke my dad and I used to set up domino labyrinths in the garage. He will surely hate that I got another tattoo, but I’m sure he’ll shed a tear or two when I share the concept with him.”