by Zoë Pollock
The blog Pen and Ink renders beautiful illustrations of tattoos and the stories behind them. Sky Dylan-Robbins spoke to the project's creators, San Francisco illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald. On Fitzgerald's own homemade tattoo that reads “Forgive Me.”
Well that’s a long story … or a short one, depending on the moment. In short, the idea was some grasp at Catholicism, forgiveness and the Holy Trinity. It’s kind of hard to remember, though, because of all the whiskey.
MacNaughton describes her tattoo philosophy as "No regrets":
When people ask me what one of my tattoos means, my standard response is, “A youth well spent.”
(See Pen and Ink for Cassy's story of her hummingbird tattoos, above)
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