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GLGabriela Lizarraga
Gabriela Lizarraga
This is tattoo number four, found on my left ankle, it reflects more of my geeky side. But there is still meaning to it. I have always loved Captain America ever since I saw the first Avengers movie. As my love for this character grew, so did my knowledge of him. And it was in that learning that I discovered an inspirational quote. “Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- No, you move.” (Fun fact, my best friend went with me for this piece and got a tattoo of Iron Man’s arc reactor! The artist who did the pieces freehanded them!)

This is tattoo number four, found on my left ankle, it reflects more of my geeky side. But there is still meaning to it. I have always loved Captain America ever since I saw the first Avengers movie. As my love for this character grew, so did my knowledge of him. And it was in that learning that I discovered an inspirational quote. “Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- No, you move.” (Fun fact, my best friend went with me for this piece and got a tattoo of Iron Man’s arc reactor! The artist who did the pieces freehanded them!)

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Number 10, not the best photo, but it says “I love you more” in my mother’s handwriting. She got “I love you, mom” in mine! This was also a Friday the 13th tattoo!Loneliness in the universeLoneliness is a feeling that has become one of the characteristic features of our generation Z. In theory, a person as a social being surrounded by other individuals should not experience this feeling. Is it the result of the appearance of social networks and online life for show, or the fact that we have much more information about the world and people that we want to get away from this? For me personally, this has become the main feeling of life and creativity. I didn’t draw, and I thought that I didn’t know how to do it, until I was at one moment at the bottom of the darkest, most drawn and dreary loneliness. Before that, I tried to close the disconnect with the world, communicating with people who were doing something of what I thought, I was never given and never will be. But if it happens that these very people are knocking the soil out from under your feet, then you, like Alice, are flying to the bottom of the same dreary rabbit hole. And that made me who I am now. The more you delve into knowledge, the less you want to communicate with most people and the more necessary it becomes to build your own world. One of my favorite artists, Victor Pivovarov, a representative of Moscow conceptualism, a landmark in unofficial Soviet and then Russian art, in 1975 produced a series of “Projects for a lonely person” that roughly describe a “perfectly lonely” person. I also decided to make a series of illustrations to the philosophical aspects of the consideration of this concept. Still, I'm also a kind of Moscow conceptualist. The second image I will attach the work of Pivovarov.Based on the generalized picture, we can distinguish four images of loneliness: cosmic, cultural, social, interpersonal.So N1:Cosmic loneliness is a person’s experience of his remoteness from the “all-encompassing” essence, which nature, cosmos, and the world can seem to be; God, the "highest mind" '; human history. This refers to the state of mind of a person who realizes that his “life program” remains unrealized, that his personality is not noticed by society, that he has not left “his mark on history”.“I went on a 14 day silent retreat and it was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done.Towards the end of the two weeks I had what I think I can only describe as an out of body experience during the 4am session. I felt an overwhelming bubble of sadness and guilt literally rise within me but it wasn’t mine I was just experiencing it for someone else, I opened my eyes in floods of soundless tears that also felt not mine.I forgave my mum there and then, and it felt natural that I would stand by her no matter what, no more distancing myself, no more pushing her to get help, I would just be there unconditionally.When I left and came back home my mum told me she had something to tell me. She’d woken up really early in the morning (around 4am) and she said it was then clear what she had to do and why she had to do it.I believe I felt what my mum was feeling. I still don’t know what my mum actually felt that morning but it gave her the power and motivation to change her life.”This was my third tattoo! (I got three done in one sitting as a birthday present to myself.) This little lizard, is my sweet Pascal. He saved me from myself so many times, and gave me motivation to go on. So what I decided to do, I painted his foot, stamped his foot on my hand, took a picture, downloaded it to my computer, made it life-size, and told the artist to put it on my foot. My sweet Pascal unfortunately passed away couple years later, I am grateful to have this forever memory of him.Tattoo number 6, inspired by a quote I happened to read one day while I was volunteering at the wildlife hospital I have been helping for three years now. This was also my first Friday the 13th tattoo! “She is as a bird perched in a tree, feeling the branches bending beneath her, but still she sings, knowing she has wings.” #FridayThe13th #birds #smalltattoo #Black The process that surrounds the tattoo is as important as the tattoo process itself. For me it is an entire process to connect and prepare both of ourselves for the tattoo, part of the experience.... Keep creating, keep growing.
This would be tattoo number five, my roses. It was drawn in two sessions, totaling about 3 to 4 hours. I would like to start by saying roses are my favorite flower, which is the reason why I picked them. However, this tattoo has a story behind it as well. With my first tattoos on my wrists it was a reminder for me to stop hurting myself, that I was stronger than that. But of course, life happened. I had a very bad relapse. I decided once I healed, I would replace the empty canvas of my skin with something beautiful once again, to remind me that out of my pain there would be a beautiful ending. (This piece was custom drawn!) #roses #floral #blackandgrey #quartersleeve Tattoo number 7, by far the most expensive one I have (so far that is). This piece was inspired by two different quotes. Not only that, but lions have been my favorite animals since I was a little kid. “ she has liens in her heart, and a fire in her soul.” “She slept with the wolves without fear, for the wolves knew there was a lion among them.” (This piece was custom drawn!) #lion #floral #blackandgrey Did one of my designs on a guy with the same name as myself. I like the fun in that. My wrist tattoos were my very first ones. When I was 11, I was diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety. I dealt with self harm, and suicidal thoughts for years. When I turned 18, I wanted a constant reminder for myself that could never be erased. I wanted to turn what once  was a source of pain to something beautiful, and that’s what I did.“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.”― Erwin SchrodingerThank you Charley for your trust and for the complete freedom with your tattoo! I loved working on this one as its subject is very close to me. “There's something poetic about the basis of life being greater than the known universe. Similarly with wave-particle duality, I was always taught that electrons were subatomic particles so to discover that they're also waves opens up a whole new bunch of questions that I'm looking to answer. In short what I'm looking for the design to represent is the unanswered and unanswerable questions but also the comfort that comes from the unknown.”By @peterlaevivInquiries:peter.laeviv@gmail.com.....#tattoodo #singleneedle #londontattooartist #tattooart #blaFinally!?One of the favorite work I done in this year ?? Demonic skull on the whole back framed with decrepit flowers ? I love it! Thank you Lala for the trust and you made me truly happy of this tattoo??That’s exactly what happens when you book up all yo