My Cross Tattoo
This tattoo needs little explanation—it's a design of Christ dying on the cross. This was my first religious tattoo. The design was taken from a pendant that my parents gave me when I celebrated my confirmation. In the pendant, the Christ figure is open space, cut from the silver. In the tattoo, the space is filled with the colours of a setting or rising sun—a visual allusion to Christ's descending to the dead and rising to new life.
This tattoo was done by Psycho Dave at Way Cool Tattoos—Downtown in Toronto. This tattoo is on my left arm.