This is my samoan style leg piece. I am half samoan and i am proud of woth sides of my ancestry. This piece was at a very motivating period of my life, I started getting it done just after my grandfathers death and finished it soon after graduating from the fire academy. While the symbols and designs are traditional, I asked the tapau to work in numbers of signifigance. Intertwined are the dates of my grandfathers death and a number of other signifigant days recorded in flesh...I love it.
thats pretty wikid shit... and sneaking in the dates was a great idea. Its nice to see a big piece like this with some meaning behind it... if all that love is goin into it, it should be created from something special too.