Tattoos In David Kirby's Inked Well

Can tattoos have an effect on your physical appearance and interpretation of who you are? Tattoos carry a world full of emotions, words, art, and recollections. To start off, David Kirby, in the article “Inked Well”, believes that tattoos are easier to get than others, implying that it varies due to many factors. Like what a person does in their everyday life, or why they are getting a tattoo. The author makes a true statement because it can either create a memory or make you identifiable.
Consequently, tattoos may cause memories or regrets. They show parts of your life or personality being represented through it. In this case, a man named Richard Costello put up stolen motorcycle parts on eBay with bare feet and tattoos showing ‘White’ and ‘Trash’. As a result, they found him in the police databases and arrested once again. As shown in the text, “According to Sgt. Greg Stewart, Mr. Costello just tiptoed his way back to jail” (692). As well as, “Thus, Mr. Loos reasoned, it’s OK for a Pacific Islander to cover himself and all his possessions with ink and carvings, whereas “a modern person [i.e., a European] who tattoos himself is either a criminal or
Based on the passage, “there are primarily two types of tattoo narratives, the Record Book and the Canvas” (695). “The point of all of this is self expression- and we seem to be living in a time where that’s what nearly everybody (word carefully chosen) wants to do, in one way or another”(696). It demonstrates possible preferences that the person gets more tattoos later on. Also, Kirby includes a partial amount of evidence using Jodie and Melissa as an example which is not concrete evidence. However, people have used tattoos as artwork that can illustrate into different meanings with a unique perspective and conveys a story behind each one even if it has the most minimal