Thursday, March 19, 2009

Electric Michaelangelo Question 4

if you were to get a tattoo, what would you get? where would you have it?

what do you think Hall was trying to express when she described Riley's tattoo on his foot?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

6 comments:

t. said...

i think the Tyger Hall was referring to had a double meaning (is that a doppleganger or is that something totally different?).
riley recognizes that for all of his talent in art, some things are not for the mortal hand or eye to catch. i think he is also one of those things you cant fully draw, paint, write, or even tell about. he's too much for one man.


right now im thinking i would get a very serious looking Icarus, falling on my right lumbar into an implied sea

thinkpink said...

It is an exceprt from a poem by William Blake. I know most of us were forced to read him in HS.

He very much hated the British government and how they controlled people and had power.

e.g.

What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

If you read the poem Blake goes on to say how he wants people to take actions and not be submissive. Our nature is to be free-hence the tiger.

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/66.html

thinkpink said...

as for a tattoo i want to get an invisible ink or some sort. does such a thing exist? i want to have something there but have no one see it. i would want a picture but maybe a quote or some words. nothing inspirational though...something from a signigicant event in my life. which as of right now has not happened yet...unless you count selling my sould to the government. ha.

t. said...

pink - i think if you got an all white ink tattoo, it would barely be noticeable to others until they looked. under a blacklight, however, watch out!! i know you spend SOOO much time at raves and other blacklit places, so maybe you should really consider this.... heheh

virginia said...

i like wedding band tattoos. alas, i would probably not get a tattoo...i'm even feeling a bit conflicted about the tattoos my boyfriend has...yes, tom and i are back together...anyway, he has tattoos on his feet. they're cute, but i'm conflicted. some things are just drilled into your head at a young age...like don't date anybody with tattoos! maybe i'd get a tat that stated "classy" right across my ass(y)...sorry, i had to go for that rhyme.

t. said...

hahah virginia i JUST read your reply. hilarious.

ok so now that it's months later are you and tom back or what?