Last week, I posted the “after” version of a tattoo I spotted early last Fall. The host, John, e-mailed me the updated photos after I spotted him in at the grocery store. He also sent me shots of his three other pieces, posted above and below.
Via e-mail, John gave me the run-down on the tattoos, all inked at Body Art Studios in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
“The tattoo with the knife through the heart is a memorial tattoo for my grandmother who passed away in 2000. I drew it and Peter [Cavorsi] tattooed it. It took me a few years to get it because I wanted to get the tattoo done on her birthday… October 13, but I wanted to wait for a Friday the 13th ’cause that was her lucky day.”
“As for ‘Cheech,’ it is another memorial tattoo for my Uncle Patty, my grandmother’s brother. That is why it is in red, so it looks like the blood dripping from the knife [that] wrote out his name. He got the name ‘Cheech’ in World War II. It was his nickname, which is weird, because we are Italian and ‘Cheech’ in Italian is a nickname for Frank. Both of the tattoos are on my left forearm…”.
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