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Photographer Unknown, (The Watcher and the Heron)
“And I rose
In a rainy autumn
And walked abroad in shower of all my days
High tide and the heron dived when I took the road
Over the border
And the gates
Of the town closed as the town awoke.”
―
Photographer Unknown, (The Long Gun and the Skull)
“We take a word, such as freedom, and dress it up to mean the ability to bear firearms, display flags, collect rainwater or grow clean food, but absolute freedom is not a relative construct. It is not there one minute or outlawed the next. It can never be seized or given. It is ever-lasting and omnipresent.”
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Photographer Unknown, (Flowers and Stars)
Photographer Unknown, Eagle Crest Tattoo
Photographer Unknown, (The Silver Ring)
Ten Guys with Great Tattoos
Photographer Unknown, (Keys and Swords)
Photographer Unknown, The Illustrated Man
“All the time he had been talking his hands had wandered over the Illustrations, as if to adjust their frames, to brush away dust- the motions of a connoisseur, an art patron.”
―Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
Photographers Unknown, An Obscure Nostalgia to Create
“I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are.”
―
Photographer Unknown, (On the Roadside)
Photographer Unknown, (Rose in a Hand)
Artist Unknown, Blackwork Tattoo: Half Suit
Photogapher Unknown, (1992)
Collection: Guys with Tattoos
“And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last.”
—Herman Melville, Moby Dick or, The Whale
Photographer Unknown, (The Buddha and the Handgun), Photo Shoot