This is an updated (1 year later) version of the other picture I posted of my Great Wave Over Kanagawa tattoo. Tattooing done by Erik Javor @ Voodoo Needle. The tattoo, for me, represents a Buddhist teaching that life is similar to the ocean- often what we notice and what seems important are surface waves, but actually these barely influence the movement of the ocean at all. Our lives and decisions, too, should be based on deeper-running currents.