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I am Andi Phoenix and I'm singing in DESASTERKIDS. I'm 23 years old and I'll finish my eventmanagement studies next year.
What I like about tattoos, is that they can
tell a story, that you're able to keep memories on your skin and that you're able to artistically
symbolize what you stand for.
I got my first tattoo when I was 20 - it was
this writing: "Take this life - Make it yours" That's a line from an August Burns Red song
and it means to me that you should not comply to what other people give you, but you should
reach for what you want to have.
Right after the writing i got the phoenix here.
The phoenix is really important to me, because
a phoenix doesn't die, it falls to ashes and is reborn from the ashes.
And that means to me that you should never give up and always fight on for what you belive in
or what you want to have.
After that, I got the tattoos of these two peonies here -
they stand for my family: the blue one for my twin brother
and the red one for my mother.
Here on the back is a rose that stands for
my romantic side - I'm acutally a sexist ***, but if someone is really important to me,
I can be romantic as well.
For closure I've got a cloudscape in form of a phoenix as well -
it stands in confrontation with the phoenix down here.
There's also the lines coming down from here, where the phoenix has to fight his way up.
And I chose spirals, because I'm a big fan of those - I've written an essay about spirals
in mathclass - even though I don't remember what I wrote in it, I'm still a big fan of spirals!
A little while back I've got a tattoo on my hand as well:
it's an artistic interpretation for the sun shining behind every dark cloud.
And that's a metaphor for no matter how crappy your day
or your current situation, it will always get better.
That's my favorit tattoo, not only because it's on my hand, but because it kind of
stands for how my life went. I used to be really depressed, had no self-esteem..
But over the years I've learnt a lot and there's nobody how could bring my ego down today!