Tattoo Spotlight: Tattoos and Wanderlust
For Mikki Jeane, tattoos are about more than just body art. A musician, a wanderer, a promotional model and a true tattoo collector, her ink is a reminder of places she’s been, people she’s met and the music she loves. For this week’s Tattoo Spotlight, Mikki Jeane shares a little bit of her collection and her life.
Mikki Jeane gets a tattoo in every state she visits, and she is quite the traveler. She has each tattoo artist sign and date his piece of work, as though it was a souvenir of her trip or a memento of that piece of her life.
Mikki Jeane: You got it, souvenirs they are. And I never choose a shop beforehand…it’s mostly just which ever one has the right vibe while I’m cruisin’ by.
I have thirteen tats which blend very nicely together. They are all super memorable with mighty fine stories behind them. If I were to choose one it would be my Libra scales with a guitar in the middle. On one side of the scale there’s a bag of money and on the other side there’s a clock. It means I can’t balance money or time but music keeps them both in check. The day I got it is the day my mother passed on and she was also a Libra.
Mikki Jeane’s music is a big influence on her tattoos.
[I have] a tribal rose that says “darkness imprisoning me,” part of “One” by Metallica, the first song I ever learned on guitar.
I’ve been jammin’ for a long time now and that’s what led me to all these bad ass cities. My tunes are pure pain and they really hit your soul. I’ve lost 3 brothers, my uncle, and my mother and that’s why I hit the road in the first place, to give people a piece of my heart that I once gave to those I lost.
Mikki Jeane’s time in Milwaukee is coming to an end, as the wanderlust is taking her to the the sunshine and beauty of California. She left with a beautiful parting thought that seems to define her life and her travels: “YOU CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY.”
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