Your Body the Canvas

Famous Tattoo artist Sailor Jerry

Tattoos have been around for century’s and today there almost everywhere, so it’s safe to say that there pretty well accepted, but even still there is some controversy. Most often Tattoo’s are said to look “unprofessional” and other times it’s the art work itself that might be offensive; tattoo’s having also been connected to crime affiliations. While tattoos have been used for religious, spiritual, criminal, and personal reasons in many different cultures, the practice of filling your skin with ink hasn’t died down. Today most people choose to get tattoos for cosmetic, sentimental/memorial, and symbolic reasons. The growth of tattoo culture over the years has transformed it into a pop culture phenomenon and is now a very popular form of art. Looking at tattoo artwork today they as decorative and detailed as paintings you would see hung up in a museum and therefore has rightly earned the recognition as a form of art. Today people of many different age groups have tattoos although many times it’s the older generations that don’t particularly like the permanent body art. In my case coming from a strong Hispanic family, my grandparent’s motto is “Your body is not a canvas!” my response; “why not?”