Rusty
Eleven years ago this young lady was involved in a car accident, hit from behind causing a severe injury to her neck. The injury was so damaging that even today she deals with constant pain.
At the time she got this tattoo she was an apprentice tattoo artist. Her mentor had asked her to practice with script inscriptions resulting in this self-applied tattoo on her upper left thigh.
The art itself takes it root in the Hungarian word for Rust or Rusty. In Hungarian the translation is “rozsdas” with the accent over the last ‘a’. If you look again you can see the word, in script, written left to right.
Why “rusty” and in Hungarian. As she put it to me, the damage in her neck makes her feel like a rusty door when she moves her head and neck. Being half Hungarian, the tattoo was an way for her to deal with the anger she felt in her 20’s of having to deal with this injury but expressed in a way that allowed her to keep her affliction personal.
