[Jewelry making - Article 00411] - Re: [Orchid] Proper tattoo for a goldsmith

[angela ajootian]

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    I do know there are some lovely dieties of smithing in japanese art
    which is a style lending itself well to beautiful ink. For my own
    purposes I cut a silver 2.5x2 Mjollner [Thor's hammer] out of 18g.
    and made a brand for my upper shoulder. I can use the brand as a
    pendant as well. I like norse mythos and I like fighting [not bar
    brawling, martial stuffs] and the hammer is a clear symbol of both
    martial and metal skills. Come Ragnarok the Aser will hopefully see
    my arm sticking out of the pile of bodies and take me up for the new
    world. Ideally. 

    The brand worked out rather well, just me and a plate of sushi
    celebrating New Years a while back. It doesn't hurt at all because
    you cauterize past the nerves, a papercut hurts worse and my torch
    was a perfect heat source. At some point I'll have ink done to
    highlight designs as it's based on a barrow's find. 

    "I find this work oddly menacing because of the way the formal
    post-modern iconicity and the disjunctive perturbation of the
    painterly biomorphic neo-tribal gestures spatially undermine the
    subtle yet distinctive Magrittian semiotic juxtapositioning. I like
    it."
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