Tattoos have always served as a form of communication long before the world had written language. Across cultures and eras, people have marked their skin to express identity, faith, grief, love, or belonging. A symbol treasured in one part of the world might look meaningless elsewhere, yet to the person wearing it, that mark can hold an entire lifetime’s worth of meaning. These visual stories often pass us by without our noticing—but sometimes a particular tattoo appears often enough that it demands our attention.
