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Our beautiful @miyumiyu shared her back tattoo story with us and it's very heartbreaking. What a gorgeous story behind this huge tattoo created and made by Jo Bernet, a tattoo artist based in Switzerland.

This tattoo is a long story but above all a big part of me. It took me 4 years to decide who to give my back to, then 4 more years to wait before getting a tattoo. I leafed through a lot of magazines and made several conventions before meeting Jo Bernet at the Mondial du Tatouage. There are few tattooists precursors of Trash Polka, Jo works in Switzerland at Steel WorkShop. So I made 4 trips of 16 hours for the realization of this tattoo. Because he was close to my heart.

For the piece, I only gave the tattoo artist the theme. Peter Pan Syndrome. A syndrome that I have encountered for a long time. Deprived of my innocence and my youth, I have long struggled to enter the adult world, to accept my adult life, to escape it, to lock myself in a bubble or to rub shoulders with children to want to feel like I am in my place. And getting that tattoo done was like accepting to have walked through it. Formerly I had already tattooed "Don't mind the past" on the back because the past remains behind, perhaps unconsciously for that where I chose to make this piece on my back.

The artist, to image this tattoo, asked me to tell me more about my childhood, information. I explained to him that I grew up in a family where I was not wanted, and discriminated against at school by my skin color, I connected with life through the only friendly relationship I had created with my cat. He was my only confidant. The tattoo artist therefore put it at the heart of this tattoo and I was very moved. My cat died a few months before starting the first session.

Then there is tied the face of a child with a pure and innocent look. The look I would have liked to keep all my life surely, but the adult world is to lose purity and realize how cruel the world is.

This tattoo means a lot to me, and Jo Bernet knew how to represent it perfectly.
It was the story of this tattoo, my story.

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