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Back of Neck Tattoos - Easily Find the Big, High Quality Galleries

You won't have to weed through a bunch of generic back of neck tattoos any more. I know that you're tired of staring at 100's of pages of cookie cutter design choices and I would, too, because that awful artwork is hideous to look at. If you allow yourself to make one very minor change to how you look for back of neck tattoos, you can open up a brand new door to fresh, very high quality artwork galleries.

This is a must for most people, because human nature is to settle for what you see the most of. If you're looking at tons of generic designs, there's a fairly strong chance that you'll end up getting tattooed with something just as generic. The bad part about this is that 99% of all people regret putting that kind of tattoo art on themselves in a couple of months. By that time, it's too late, though. So, why does everybody get locked into such horrible collections of back of neck tattoos? Well, this is very simple to spot. It's because everybody keeps attempting to find artwork galleries by using search engines.

This is a big no-no, because you have a very slim chance of locating any of the better and higher quality artwork sites in their lists. It's almost like they've all mysteriously disappeared, never to be shown again. All search engines do is throw some random list of every generic laced gallery out there right now. You don't want to waste hours and hours scanning those worthless back of neck tattoos, so let me share a sneaky trick for getting directly to the better artwork: Use big forums to your advantage.

It might seem like something small, but it'll make a huge difference in the originality and quality of the artwork you get to pick from and surf through. Big forums have enormous archive sections, which are usually filled to the top with past topics about tattoo art. Just hop inside of a couple big topics and have some fun skimming them, because you won't believe how many names and links to superb galleries have been shared by other tattoo enthusiasts. It's your one stop source for directions to collections of back of neck tattoos that are far superior to the generic junk out there right now. It's just makes sense.

TATTOO Claudia

Mariposa.

Rilke On the Flesh

It's February 1, which means we are only two months away from the start of a new edition of The Tattooed Poets Project, and I have begun assembling the first posts for this annual extravaganza.

What better way to acknowledge this looming event, but to post a poetic tattoo?

The following piece is one that I spotted at the end of last summer on Penn Plaza. Belonging to a young lady named Rosa, it has been one of my few remaining 2010 leftovers:

What I noticed first was not that this was a line of verse, but that it was placed on the body in an unusual way. Most lines of poetry, when manifested on flesh, are on the arms and wrist, or the lower legs and occasionally a back. This tattoo runs from the front of to her back, vertically climbing and descending from her shoulder.

The line is in German, and represents a piece from Rainier Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies.

Ein jeder Engel ist schrecklich

Or, in context:

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’
Hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

 Those are the opening lines of the first elegy, translated by Stephen Mitchell.

Rosa didn't give me much insight as to why she had the line tattooed, but it is quite a powerful statement.

When I asked her who the artists was, she replied only that it was someone in Brooklyn that went under the name "The Milk Maid". This sounded familiar at the time, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Of course, I came to be reminded that The Milk Maid is the moniker of Joy Rumore, at Twelve 28 Tattoo, quite a wonderful artist, whose work has appeared previously on Tattoosday here.

Thanks to Rosa for sharing this lovely line of verse with us here on Tattoosday!