Some people turn to words to better make real the creative juices they have inside, others build things, others still utilize art. It’s not so much the method that’s important, so much as the act of producing something that others can take in.
I mean, this is nothing new. As a species we’ve been creating and constructing for almost as long as we’ve been around. Look around and you’ll find creative flair in just about everything humans have touched, be it architecture, food, clothing, even plain old city design.
It should hardly come as a surprise, then, that so many of us choose to treat our own skin as a canvas.
I’m talking here about tattoos, which have held substantial significance in many different cultures across the world over the past few thousand years. Tattoos have been frowned upon in some societies at certain points in history, but today they’re more widely accepted as an expression of the owner’s personality and soul.
