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My tattoos: They’re my personal art collection
纹身:他们是我的个人艺术收藏
Tattoos are fairly common these days. Most footballers are living needle-art and I can’t think of many of my friends who don’t have some form of permanent marker stamped somewhere on their body. But full-on tats, like Annie’s, are still a talking point. At least they are when they’re first encountered. The strange thing about them is that they disappear very quickly. You stop noticing them after five minutes and then you never really see them again.
纹身最近非常常见
Still, Annie’s tattoos are big: designed to be noticed. When tattoos take up that amount of space they’re often about knitting together smaller, older tattoos. Making the disparate, the random, into one whole. It’s as though the tattooed person wants to make sense of their past, to draw together the emotions that caused them to have the separate tattoos in the first place. To make all their previous selves into one united person.
不变的是,安妮的纹身很大:设计得引人注目
Annie’s tattoos are not fashionable. They’re recognisably post-1990s, but they’re not of the moment. They’re not Instagram tats. Instagram tattoos are small and black, inspirational words or significant dates. Arrows and teeny dots. Hipster tattoos are scratchy, badly drawn things that recall the ones we made in school with a compass and ink.
安妮的纹身并不时尚
But Annie’s are mostly flowers – pretty things – plus a phoenix and a ship in full sail. These are classic symbols: romance, life, rebirth, freedom, a big world, a desire to enjoy life and its natural elements. They don’t reference death or past loves. They’re about Annie and her life now. Judging by her expression, she likes her life. And we should look at her smile. They’re emotional people, the tattooed. Their tattoos are just an introduction, their way of telling us about themselves. Despite their decoration, what most tattooed people want us to see is the person underneath.
但是安妮的大多都是花——美丽的东西——再加上一只凤凰和一艘航行中的船
。这些是传统的象征:浪漫,人生,重生,自由,一个宏大的世界,一份想要享受生活和其自然元素的渴望 。他们不会使人联想到死亡或前任 。它们是关于安妮和她现在的生活的 。从她的描述来看,她很喜欢自己现在的生活 。另外我们应当关注她的笑容 。纹身的人是情感化的 。他们的纹身只是一个自我介绍,是他们讲述自己的方式 。除了他们的装饰,纹身的人想让我们看到的是深层的东西 。译文属可可英语原创,未经允许,不得转载 。