dragon tribal

Dragons and modern “Tribal” design, a beautiful combination. Dragons have been for me, for almost all my life, my spirit guide. To honor this aspect of my spirituality I felt that it needed it’s own tattoo. I made it “tribal” because I feel that dragons help weave my world and it is with them that I can understand the pattern for it is (to a degree) part of them. Alongside that I imposed duality to show that I personally very much believe in balancing any equation and know that everything balances out… in the end. Through the design I made sure the look was “flowing yet sharp” to impose a sense of beauty in the movement, but painfulness if you just decided not to follow the flow or be guided and trip up… this therefor is a metaphore for the experiances I have found working with my totem myself. As I was getting it tattooed the tattooist mentioned “so did you mean for there to be a face in this” ... and I looked in the mirror and I saw the partial face and simply smiled and said “no, but it was meant to be there” and she continued on. At the bottom you see two crescents rising up, not attached to the dragon weave at all, these are representatives of the waning moon, the moon I was born under, and the moon of my patroness Hecate. The eyes are white to represent the wisdom and enlightenment these majestic and ancient creatures hold… that if you can learn to respect their edges, navigate their curves, and listen to their weavings, that you might gain some knowledge and wisdom along the way.

technical info
dimensions: 6” x 2”
tattooed at: Unique Ink, Marion IL
tattooed: November 6, 2003

photo taken: November 7, 2003