KatiE Jones
Photographer : Julia Loglisci
W
est coast local, Katie Jones, believes that tattoos are
a form of self-therapy. For numerous reasons, Katie
always finds a meaningful motive for her next tattoo.
She inks herself in memory of something important that needs
to not be forgotten.
Katie tattoos her body as a reminder of the life learning experiences she is constantly going through. “I get a tattoo to start
over - a new beginning - which represents my strength,” she
says. “I have the words Love is Blind written in an Arabic font
under my left arm. I believe that love is blind, 100%. Whether it’s
good love or bad love, it can always be blinding.”
To say Katie has a few tattoos is an understatement. If you take
a closer look, you can see she is covered from head to toe. “My
OBSESSION is tattoos,” says Katie. “I think everyone who has
them would agree with me in saying they’re addicting.”
One of her tattoos is of a naked girl wrapped in vines on her left
rib cage. “A naked woman represents beauty; inside and out,”
Katie says. On her right rib cage, again in Arabic script, reads
a quote that Katie lives by: “Be different, be brave, be true, be
great, have dreams, have courage, have strength, be someone,
be you, let me be me.”
“These are great words to live by,” says Katie, “and sometimes
I need a little reminder of that.”
Katie’s first tattoo was of a baby dragonfly on