Anna's Amazing Half-Sleeve Honors Her Brothers and Where They Have Lived

Yesterday we saw work from an Italian artist, today we are admiring ink I spotted on the subway last month that originated in Sweden.<br /><br />I met Anna on the West 4th Street platform and hopped on the F train toward Brooklyn just to have a moment to talk to her and find out a little about her tattoos:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWy9CO6tmKPtpGTWA9kzseN0aNfe0LkUrqBGdzQsXKai4D5wTa6XJakbetXyib5FBxk7U17qwdEH89mFfXIOduwqfa7lZs-E0gID12MYgwEczYSzpT7jjyU0ApAtHGpuLLk2o5LcFU1PE/s615/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWy9CO6tmKPtpGTWA9kzseN0aNfe0LkUrqBGdzQsXKai4D5wTa6XJakbetXyib5FBxk7U17qwdEH89mFfXIOduwqfa7lZs-E0gID12MYgwEczYSzpT7jjyU0ApAtHGpuLLk2o5LcFU1PE/s640/photo.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib5ZjLj9CtxtVtDQ974ZhuHjDO11hwubOWfkU11rSaf1yMDKFWgAF0iXu4dbXSbmS3QfSlih1i7xF2SOF5XqYU14KFXaCWId135_lENcezbrG5_cL4bUrsnC6wXKMNZnwksrhBs-CFP_U/s615/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib5ZjLj9CtxtVtDQ974ZhuHjDO11hwubOWfkU11rSaf1yMDKFWgAF0iXu4dbXSbmS3QfSlih1i7xF2SOF5XqYU14KFXaCWId135_lENcezbrG5_cL4bUrsnC6wXKMNZnwksrhBs-CFP_U/s640/photo.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><br />Anna explained the concept as a family-related sleeve. The two faces that are featured in the hot air balloons are portraits of her brothers, Mike and John. The maps that appear as background represent many of the places they have lived, like Japan, Peru, and Puerto Rico.<br /><br />She credited this stunning work to Vilda Nordström at <a href="http://www.vildaart.com/">Vild@art</a> in <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"><a href="http://xn--vrgrda-iuac/">Vårgårda</a>, Sweden. Check out their Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vilda-Art-Tatuering/143863275654058">here</a>. Vilda's work is very impressive!</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk2gfBv51bjBnoHllM8I4RE46OR9pGjA82e-bQjgmxorbz5LiTfmxVWFwcdR1ojgoFBuMLZL3sq0N7xI9ShBVNvfBBxnpXcz5vf06wxhNhiWrC86eRTTXNq0-a4YXjtzEI_zDrKP4xuBs/s0-d/IMG_0459.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk2gfBv51bjBnoHllM8I4RE46OR9pGjA82e-bQjgmxorbz5LiTfmxVWFwcdR1ojgoFBuMLZL3sq0N7xI9ShBVNvfBBxnpXcz5vf06wxhNhiWrC86eRTTXNq0-a4YXjtzEI_zDrKP4xuBs/s0-d/IMG_0459.JPG" width="456" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;">Thanks to Anna for sharing her tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.3969519571401179" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are reading this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></b>

Anna's Amazing Half-Sleeve Honors Her Brothers and Where They Have Lived

Yesterday we saw work from an Italian artist, today we are admiring ink I spotted on the subway last month that originated in Sweden. I met ...

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