It's Curtains For The Human Owl
Tattooed in Fall of 2014 at Lucky Soul Tattoo's by Beth.
I first met Beth in the Spring of 2014 and she did an amazing tattoo for my upcoming wedding. When I first met Beth I remember how calm and peaceful her energy was. She was someone with a comforting aura and kind demeanor that put me right at ease.
Shortly after meeting her and getting my first tattoo by her my Uncle Ken died by suicide. It was and maintains to be the most painful thing I've ever been through. My role in my immediate family is the "responsible child" and was tasked with seeing the body, arranging the funeral etc. My uncles loss was and still maintains to be some of the most trying times. I was angry and bitter, traumatized, trying to hold to a job I started 4 weeks prior and write my thesis for my MAAT. I wasn't the fun girl anymore, the loss had changed me and I needed something to have him with me.
As a tattoo lover it seemed the perfect idea to get a tattoo of his spirit animal on my right shoulder, so he could always look over me and guide my dominant side as I started to make big life decisions. My uncle reminded me of a barn owl, strong and fairly quiet, sometimes overlooked, with a yearning to be free. Barn Owls symbolize unrecognized power that needs to be tapped into, something I wish my Uncle had seen in himself.
Beth loved my idea and took a sketch I had made and turned it into a reality. She listened to my story, gave me empathy and space in the process of creating this memorial and held space for me to feel the complicated whirlwind of emotions that came with this tattoo.
Every tattoo I have is special, they each hold a memory or commemorate something but this tattoo helped me heal and move on. For that I will always be grateful.
I first met Beth in the Spring of 2014 and she did an amazing tattoo for my upcoming wedding. When I first met Beth I remember how calm and peaceful her energy was. She was someone with a comforting aura and kind demeanor that put me right at ease.
Shortly after meeting her and getting my first tattoo by her my Uncle Ken died by suicide. It was and maintains to be the most painful thing I've ever been through. My role in my immediate family is the "responsible child" and was tasked with seeing the body, arranging the funeral etc. My uncles loss was and still maintains to be some of the most trying times. I was angry and bitter, traumatized, trying to hold to a job I started 4 weeks prior and write my thesis for my MAAT. I wasn't the fun girl anymore, the loss had changed me and I needed something to have him with me.
As a tattoo lover it seemed the perfect idea to get a tattoo of his spirit animal on my right shoulder, so he could always look over me and guide my dominant side as I started to make big life decisions. My uncle reminded me of a barn owl, strong and fairly quiet, sometimes overlooked, with a yearning to be free. Barn Owls symbolize unrecognized power that needs to be tapped into, something I wish my Uncle had seen in himself.
Beth loved my idea and took a sketch I had made and turned it into a reality. She listened to my story, gave me empathy and space in the process of creating this memorial and held space for me to feel the complicated whirlwind of emotions that came with this tattoo.
Every tattoo I have is special, they each hold a memory or commemorate something but this tattoo helped me heal and move on. For that I will always be grateful.