It's artwork to those who have them
Tattooing: when skin is the artist's canvas
By Mark McCann
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Vickie got her first tattoo at
14 .She and a friend were fool
ing around with a needle and
India Ink. Now. at 19. she is
having her childish experiment
"repaired.”
"I did it mostly because my
parents told me I couldn't. I
thought it would be cool.” Her
husband. Toby, supported her
decision to change the small
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black cross to a more appealing
flower. But when she came
home with a second tattoo.
Toby was furious. ''1 didn’t
mind the one on her finger but I
didn't like the one on her
breast. 1 guess it wasn't so much
the tattoo, but she got it after I
asked her not to.”
With the staccato buzz of the
needle Vickie flinched in an
ticipation. As the needle touch
ed her skin she grimaced and
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said “If you want to know if it
hurts, the answer is yes. I
wouldn't have got another one
because my husband wouldn’t
let me. but I guess I’m still a
rebel."
Her husband piped in, “I
don’t think they’re right I
wouldn't want anything that I
couldn't get rid of if I didn’t
want it." Vickie replied. "I
think they're sexy, they're art."
Allen, also 19. had different
reasons for getting a tattoo.
"Adornment. Just because I
wanted it." The University
engineering major continued.
“There are lots of tattoos in my
family. All my uncles have one.
I'm a diabetic and take four
shots a day so the pain won’t be
a problem."
Having a tattoo in the profes
sional world doesn’t bother
Allen "One third of the people
in the country have tattoos. It's
more of a personal commit
ment. I would classify myself as
a non-conformist, but it's up to
the individual if their tattoo is
going to lie non-conformist.
This tatt(x) is going to be art."
he said. The design he had was
a family sign and was his first
tattoo.
Nan Savage, the owner of Tat
too by Design in Fugene. does
more "repair" work than
anything else. "Tattoos are like
sex. Once you get one, It's OK
to get more."
Savage has four tattoos
herself. "Once you get a tattoo,
the stigmas and fears are wash
ed away, and you get another."
As an art student at the
University of Minnesota.
Savage thought it was natural
that she become a tattoo artist.
"1 went to visit a friend in
Alaska who was doing tattoos,
and I got one Pretty soon I was
doing tattoos." That was 12
years ago.
Savage didn’t like her first
tattoo and had it changed. A
small black butterfly is now the
center of a Japanese flower over
her left breast. She also has a
Foo dog on her shoulder
because she was bom in the
year of the dog On her right
ankle is a Phoenix surrounded
by bats and clouds, and on her
left ankle is a rose in a
whirlpool. The scenes were
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Nan Savage, owner of Tattoo by Design, reproduces an
elaborate design on a customer’s arm.
done by several different artists
at different times.
On the wall of Savage’s
business are the typical Harley
wings, hearts, roses and ‘‘In
memory of Mom" inscriptions,
but Savage said most people br
ing in their own designs.
"Eagles are popular because
they’re American. I do dragons,
flowers and butterflies the most.
Unicorns are real popular.
Everybody loves dragons.
"Tattoos have no gender."
Savage continued."there is no
male or female separation. Hut
talk to a biker, and he’ll tell you
there is. Usually a person gets a
tatt(H) because a friend has one.
and just as many professionals
get tattoos as anybody.”
In Japan tattooing is con
sidered an art form. Some men
get elaborate tattoos that cover
their entire bodies. Japanese
men with tattoos have formed
clubs and even have their own
festival. The main picture goes
on the back, and the rest of the
work stays within the bounds of
a central theme.
According to Savage.
"Japanese tattoos have a lot of
symbolism, and Americans’ are
pretty loose.”
When a customer calls on
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