I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time...
Tattoo by Heather at Earthship Studios March 2020
I feel I need to start this blog by addressing COVID-19. It would be socially irresponsible to not write something about it. I am not just an artist, an avid tattoo fan and tattoo supported. I am an art therapist, a caretaker, and someone who is immuno-compromised during a pandemic. I am not scared and I am anxious and stressed like so many of us. I am scared that adults don't know how to wash their hands, that our government is ill prepared tp help and support it's people and most of all that as an artist, and friend to so many artists and a small business owner this will be more then a viral pandemic, it will be a fiscal one too.
All of this being said, I will continue to sell my art, teach, and work hard to fund this project not just for me, my body, and my art but also for for all the artists who are working so hard to create art and keep businesses running and support my fellow artist.
Speaking of fellow artists, Heather was kind enough to do a birthday tattoo for me before the shop closed for the Pandemic.
As many of you know we have been working on a Beetlejuice half leg sleeve. One amazing tattoo turned into a dream of wearing my favorite things come to life. Once of my favorite scenes has always been Lydia and her suicide note. Its macabre, darkly comical and reminded me so much of wearing my weird black dresses, sitting at desk frustrated and confused, writing the same note...when Lydia writesjumped...plummeted my soul felt seen, witnessed, heard. I felt like others had to know my struggle, had understood the deep seeded adolescent pain I felt constantly and how difficult life felt so often. Lydia was my safe place, my savior amidst a sea of normal kids, who dressed normal and all appeared to be the same, she let me be weird and different. And thank the Goddess for that because I turned out amazing as a result. So this tattoo became a nod that suicide note, and to every suicide note ever written, that will ever be written.
Know now more than ever, I see you, I hear you, I witness you, and I am with you. There is hope for all of us even in the darkest of times. If you or someone you love is struggling please use the resources below.
I feel I need to start this blog by addressing COVID-19. It would be socially irresponsible to not write something about it. I am not just an artist, an avid tattoo fan and tattoo supported. I am an art therapist, a caretaker, and someone who is immuno-compromised during a pandemic. I am not scared and I am anxious and stressed like so many of us. I am scared that adults don't know how to wash their hands, that our government is ill prepared tp help and support it's people and most of all that as an artist, and friend to so many artists and a small business owner this will be more then a viral pandemic, it will be a fiscal one too.
All of this being said, I will continue to sell my art, teach, and work hard to fund this project not just for me, my body, and my art but also for for all the artists who are working so hard to create art and keep businesses running and support my fellow artist.
Speaking of fellow artists, Heather was kind enough to do a birthday tattoo for me before the shop closed for the Pandemic.
As many of you know we have been working on a Beetlejuice half leg sleeve. One amazing tattoo turned into a dream of wearing my favorite things come to life. Once of my favorite scenes has always been Lydia and her suicide note. Its macabre, darkly comical and reminded me so much of wearing my weird black dresses, sitting at desk frustrated and confused, writing the same note...when Lydia writes
Know now more than ever, I see you, I hear you, I witness you, and I am with you. There is hope for all of us even in the darkest of times. If you or someone you love is struggling please use the resources below.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1.800.273.TALK (8255)
Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
The Trevor Project Lifeline (for LGBTQ+ youth: 1.866.488.7386