Colleen Returns to Share Some Lovely Ink

I spotted a woman with some really great tattoos out on Penn Plaza and, after talking to her a brief moment, realized it was Colleen, who appeared on Tattoosday once before, back in 2009, as chronicled <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/07/behold-quadrapus.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Colleen shared two tattoos that grace her upper arms:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNVEjP-6Nb6DW2sFbsIgXj6tYCdy2GVjFedAgDyoSamja4BXL5YreVSvoAcEFIvoY7-jVXl56zJ8CxoUZwJi6t7mKoBJTAMGH1PMcvjdrc9BE2wvMcr_VQmXPDsoYYY6ar9oZMvyb018/s1600/lotus+skull.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNVEjP-6Nb6DW2sFbsIgXj6tYCdy2GVjFedAgDyoSamja4BXL5YreVSvoAcEFIvoY7-jVXl56zJ8CxoUZwJi6t7mKoBJTAMGH1PMcvjdrc9BE2wvMcr_VQmXPDsoYYY6ar9oZMvyb018/s640/lotus+skull.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><br />Colleen <b>loves</b> this tattoo and I can't say I blame her. As a Buddhist, she appreciates the symbolism of the lotus and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om"><i>om</i></a> on the skull. She explained:<br /><blockquote>"the lotus comes out of the mud at the bottom of the water and blooms out of that and that's ... birth. And the skull [represents] death."</blockquote>The piece encompasses the cycle of life and death. She credits this wonderful work to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Conlon_%28artist%29">Patrick Conlon</a> at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/gracelandbrooklyn?sk=info">Graceland Brooklyn</a>.<br /><br />Colleen also has this work on her right arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBvgYLGhlbYRj1mm3SZUvDtucd3qZq8guNSYOmZM1zYNoALptnbahCkP-DJ98zfR4CWU6v7oCda2mac09jJNIB1Rl81O56XhWrqv9bqAJj-JlffEhJ1ci18qLA_oAj8lsddNhhYJSO3-Q/s1600/dragon+colleen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBvgYLGhlbYRj1mm3SZUvDtucd3qZq8guNSYOmZM1zYNoALptnbahCkP-DJ98zfR4CWU6v7oCda2mac09jJNIB1Rl81O56XhWrqv9bqAJj-JlffEhJ1ci18qLA_oAj8lsddNhhYJSO3-Q/s640/dragon+colleen.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br />Colleen explained that the dragon was there first, and then Patrick added the fire and pansies, to make it a much more beautiful tattoo.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeB8blhIXbu1aaTlQnkg2-9KaFZf13Lf6ZdJ9UvmYV_wbNBJ_XWECfqC9UiY9oqt0skEkPn384bAudk2kf9op_krsbnKusAjAYIr5Y8OVE9LewfQGk7mEDnFCYtvnxiuKUbNvz-FYX30E/s1600/colleen+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeB8blhIXbu1aaTlQnkg2-9KaFZf13Lf6ZdJ9UvmYV_wbNBJ_XWECfqC9UiY9oqt0skEkPn384bAudk2kf9op_krsbnKusAjAYIr5Y8OVE9LewfQGk7mEDnFCYtvnxiuKUbNvz-FYX30E/s640/colleen+detail.jpg" width="342" /></a></div><br />Thanks to Colleen for sharing her tattoos with us (again) on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site 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 <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> 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></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Colleen Returns to Share Some Lovely Ink

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