Tattooed Seniors

Senior Citizens Reveal What Tattoos Look Like on Aging Skin – My Modern Met

I’ve always, always been interested in tattoos (mostly from an artistic perspective). As a point of relevance to how we’re looking at time, I like seeing how all these tattoos these people have accumulated remain a constant on their skin while also changing along with them (i.e. fading due to exposure to sunlight, distorting due to the changing elasticity of their skin). There’s that same tension there (to me) as there is in the Castor/Pollux mortal/immortal dichotomy I’m looking into. Not to mention these photographs are quite stunning in themselves.

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