They arrive in all sizes and shapes for this weekend’s Inked Circus Tattoo Expo at Barrie’s Eastview Area.
The tattoos and the individuals.
With about 150 tattoo artists from Canada and internationally, the Grove Avenue environment is filled with individuals and ink for the three-day occasion.
Folks like Dana Seeley, 34, of Dundalk, who was sprawled on a desk to get her calf tattooed.
“I wished for a goddess tattoo, and he selected it for me,” she stated, nodding toward tattoo artist Ace, who noted the goddess was named Maa Kali.
“She has an incredible historical past and what she stands for,” stated Seeley, who had 20 tattoos on her legs and arms. “She’s a determine of demise and rebirth. She’s there always you want her.”
Jesse Brownlee’s tattoo has a J.R.R. Tolkien theme from artist Danielle Diane, telling the story of Center-earth.
It exhibits Sauron’s finger with the One Ring, the Enemy, the Darkish Lord, on the peak of his energy.
“I similar to The Lord of the Rings,” stated Brownlee, who’s from Barrie. “I’ve simply learned the e-book as soon as I watched the flicks extra.”
Laura Metzger, 34, of Kincardine, says she has 16 tattoos and has been getting them for 18 years. Saturday’s was a black and gray mandala or what’s been referred to as a geometrical compilation of symbols.
“I believe that all of them inform a narrative,” Metzger stated of tattoos as artist Anna Miller, of Wingham set to work.
“It’s additionally an approach of expressing yourself and the friendships alongside how.”
Megan Burnside, 22, lives within the Lindsay space and was getting a tattoo with a lion’s head and flowers Saturday afternoon.
“It’s my artist. I’m right here for him,” she stated, pointing to Ryan Belich, of Barrie. “He does some fairly good work.”
Burnside stated she has had 9 or 10 tattoos, all by Belich, throughout the previous five years.
The Inked Circus Tattoo Expo runs till 11 p.m. Saturday, and continues 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.
More info is available at inkedcircus.com.
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