I get someone asking about my tattoos almost every day, so I think it’s time to make a post about them. I guess my tattoos are not so straight forward as I think they are, because people seem often really confused about them.
As of now, I only have two tattoos and I definitely want more but I’m not in any hurry.
This is my first tattoo and I think I got it at the end of the summer in 2013, give or take a year, I can never remember years correctly.
The initial idea for this actually came years before when watching some tattoo show on tv and there was a feminist who took the same phrase, accompanied by a pin-up girl in full 50's housewife gear. Obviously she was being ironic, but I’m not.
There are many ways you can look at my tattoo, first being that it is funny in a ”woman, go make me a sandwich” type of way. I always loved those jokes and they were quite popular on the internet at that time. Of course now it isn’t politically correct to joke, about anything.
The second reason for my tattoo is that I’ve always loved cooking, and it has been my profession for about 7 years. I grew up cooking with mom and grandma from a very young age.
That ties in with the third reason which has to do with the way I view the world. Kitchen is the heart of the home and life itself. I may not look it but I have pretty traditional family values, and providing a meal for your family is at it’s core. Think of every gathering or social occasion, they almost always revolve around food, it’s how we connect over a shared meal. And where best to talk about your day than around the kitchen table, if not with your family, then with your friends.
The frame for the text was created by my sister and I love the idea she had to put a little cupcake on it.
I got this tattoo about two and half years ago.
As I have no original ideas, I ripped it from a drawing my sister made. She had a black ink drawing of a naked girl with terra nullius written between her breast and as soon as I saw it, I asked for her permission to use it.
Terra nullius is latin and means no man’s land, or nobody's land, and it is used in a geographical sense.
For me it means that I belong to only me, and I decide what to do with my body and what to show. I think it goes well with what I do here, showing myself half or even fully nude at times.
You may feast your eyes on me, some can even touch, but you can not own me.
Though, I do have to mention that land like Australia was once claimed to be terra nullius, and look what happened there, I might be invaded by Britain also :P
My next tattoo is probably going to be some sort of flowers, I need some girly things on my skin :D
