I had a LOT of fun with this presentation project because I got to look into an artist very personal to me — my brother’s tattoo artist! My brother’s decision to get tattoos is a big part of why I was thinking so much about tattoos and therefore why I was intrigued by this class. His artist has such a cool Instagram page and has done so many different styles, displaying their wide skill. I was particularly drawn to their interest in using bright colors in tattooing, which was really fun. I tried to look for song lyrics in their work and found a couple of examples. One was a Mac Miller lyric and another was multiple different tattoos of “you are my sunshine” — a lyric that has become such an expression I forget it originally came from a lullaby. These examples were written with imagery or in someone’s handwriting, which I thought was beautiful and enhanced the meaning of the lyrics. I can’t wait to do more research on this, and it was really cool to look at it from one artist’s perspective.