Banksy’s Girl with a Balloon Tattoo
Dublin Core
Title
Banksy’s Girl with a Balloon Tattoo
Subject
Tattoo art
Banksy
Memorial
Parental Grief
LGBTQ people
Autobiographical memory
Description
Forearm tattoo of Banksy’s "Girl with a Balloon" with stillborn daughter’s name as the string. The image is all in black, except the bright red heart shaped balloon.
“My tattoo is an image by British graffiti artist, Banksy, entitled girl with balloon. I simply added our daughter's name to it. I originally saw it as a perfect, haunting visual representation of loss. In the very dark time shortly after our daughter's passing, I did not notice that the original art work in London included the phrase “there is always hope”in the background of the image. More recently I see an element of peaceful letting go in the image which is befitting where I eventually would like to get to in my grieving process.”
“My tattoo is an image by British graffiti artist, Banksy, entitled girl with balloon. I simply added our daughter's name to it. I originally saw it as a perfect, haunting visual representation of loss. In the very dark time shortly after our daughter's passing, I did not notice that the original art work in London included the phrase “there is always hope”in the background of the image. More recently I see an element of peaceful letting go in the image which is befitting where I eventually would like to get to in my grieving process.”
Creator
Participant in Reproductive Losses Research Project
Source
Personal Collection of LGBTQ Reproductive Losses Study Participant
Publisher
unpublished
Date
Circa 2012
Contributor
Participant in Reproductive Losses Research Project
Craven, Christa
Lang, Ella
Rights
Format
jpeg
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Identifier
Banksy’s Girl with a Balloon Tattoo_01
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Tattoo
Citation
Participant in Reproductive Losses Research Project, “Banksy’s Girl with a Balloon Tattoo,” LGBTQ+ Reproductive Loss, accessed March 24, 2023, https://lgbtqreproductiveloss.org/items/show/7.