Iris on Back Tattoo
Dublin Core
Title
Iris on Back Tattoo
Subject
Tattoo Art
Memorial
Botanical Illustration
LGBTQ people
Parental Grief
Autobiographical memory
Description
Tattoo of single iris sketched in black ink that covers the full length of one mother’s back in remembrance of she and her partner’s daughter. Her partner was pregnant when she had gotten the tattoo and planned to get the same image after breastfeeding.
“We got a lot of flowers and stuff [after we lost our child,] but a close friend who lives out of state sent us a dozen long stemmed blue irises the day after we lost her and that [became] her flower. So, the invitations to the memorial had an iris on them, and that’s the tattoo. Irises became very symbolic for us.”
“We both would ultimately like to get the iris tattoo. [My partner] got it [on her back] right before I got pregnant, and so I plan on getting it after I finish breastfeeding [our second child].”
“We got a lot of flowers and stuff [after we lost our child,] but a close friend who lives out of state sent us a dozen long stemmed blue irises the day after we lost her and that [became] her flower. So, the invitations to the memorial had an iris on them, and that’s the tattoo. Irises became very symbolic for us.”
“We both would ultimately like to get the iris tattoo. [My partner] got it [on her back] right before I got pregnant, and so I plan on getting it after I finish breastfeeding [our second child].”
Creator
Participant in Reproductive Losses Research Project
Source
Personal Collection of LGBTQ Reproductive Losses Study Participant
Publisher
unpublished
Date
Circa 2011
Contributor
Participant in LGBTQ Reproductive Losses Research Project
Craven, Christa
Lane-Davies, Hannah
Rights
Format
jpeg
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Identifier
Iris on Back_01
Citation
Participant in Reproductive Losses Research Project, “Iris on Back Tattoo,” LGBTQ+ Reproductive Loss, accessed September 19, 2024, https://lgbtqreproductiveloss.org/items/show/6.