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As I was packing for Korea, I stumbled across 2 pieces of paper that contained doodling from when I was 15 years old. I had made tribal tattoos out of the zodiac symbols. I remember I wanted to move into the Chinese ones, but I never got around to it.

I wanted to share it, cause I thought it was kinda cool.

I put each tattoo juxtapose it's generic symbol. I actually had a friend get the Sagitarius symbol tattooed on her. HA! :)

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Sorah I really like these ... I thought you might have incorporated their elemental association but after checking Virgo (that looks like air) is actually an earth symbol. That would have been an extra layer ... but the important thing is ... that for the only really important Zodiac symbol (;)) you did symbolise its element: Leo/Fire ... hehe
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It's interpretational. What you see as "air" could be plants/earth. SO HA! And honestly, I did these in the middle of a boring class in high school. If I did anything to match anything other than the symbols themselves, it was by happenstance and subconscious (I'm familiar with the shit, but mainly only fire signs cause I'm an Aries).

But uhhh thanks I suppose.

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I actually don't believe in tattoos.

I believe that the human body is a work of art and getting a tattoo is equivalent to putting a bumper sticker on a Bentley.

THat's me. So for me to make money off of it, would make me feel like a cheap whore. Comics already make me into a working-art-whore...my soul needs to stay clean ;)

But I appreciate the sentiment darling. And you CAN sell your stuff. :D If you don't share my crazy ideals, then you should totally make some cash ;)

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Oh I didn't mean anything negative by it ... I was more like thinking out loud ... You did great! and yeah fire is all that counts ;)
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A Carrie pet peeve (and I have a lot of them :)):

People who walk into tattoo parlors, spend -maybe- half an hour looking through books (or at sheets that very capable and talented artists such as yourself...but not you of course since it goes against your ideals ;p ) have drawn, point at one and say "Awww, that's cute! I'm gonna get that!" and then do it.

Not trying to offend anyone reading this who may have done the above, but it just seems to me that the typical person going for a tattoo expects to permanently advertise his or her chosen piece of artwork on his or her body for all of eternity and it makes me feel a WHOLE bunch better when someone has a story behind the tattoo and has put some thought into it. So I suppose you've sold me on your crazy ideals. I guess I just thought of it more as contributing artwork to other people who are willing to pay big money to support spontaneous and/or poor decision-makers...as opposed to selling cigarettes to small children for example. But now that I'm sitting here envisioning cheap whore-dom, I take back my selling the artwork idea. :D

I'm making a note to add a story to something I was going to send you weeks ago, but I'll end this really long post by saying I'm also with you on the bumper-sticker-on-a-Bentley outlook too. :)
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LOL! I loved that post. It was long winded and full of awesome! <3

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i have tattoos ;D
but i seperate myself from others everything which comes on my body is drawn by myself and unique ;D

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