Modern medical science saved Andrea’s life and put her body back together. But I’m convinced it’s Mary’s art that protects her spirit.
Note: The video and photos depict Dingwell working on a tattoo of a nude mermaid. Making the decision to get a tattoo is a permanent choice. There’s no going back. Once the needle hits your skin, delivering its unerasable, subdermal ink, you’re marked for life. You’ll be taking the indelible design of a rose, skull […]
Tattoos are commonplace in Portland. When the warm temperatures of summer reign and skin is revealed in abundance, you see them everywhere. Full sleeves of intricate imagery creep from shoulders to elbows. Skirts hover above decorated legs and sweetheart’s names blaze across many a sternum for the world to see. But one tattoo stood out […]
Tattoo Tale: Gary Chapin was visiting his friend and accordion mentor Sylvain Piron in France. They were at a dinner party and, as he is known to do, Piron began to play his accordion. But the crowd wanted Chapin to play and shouted for, “L’Autre Diatoniste,” which is French for ‘the other accordion player.” The moniker stuck. […]
Tattoo Tale: When Katie Drew was 12 years old she memorized Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.” The more she recited it, the more she fell in love with his words. She moved a lot as a kid, and Frost’s images of leaf-strewn paths, diverging in the trees, reminded her of her grandparents’ house […]
