Monday, July 9, 2012

Alfredo Shares a Sugar Skull

I ran into Alfredo last month in Penn Station and he shared this tattoo:


He credited this to an artist named Sy at Sunset Park Tattoo.

Alfredo, who has "over 23" tattoos, told me that this traditional sugar skull is embellished with a hairstyle modeled after the way his mother wore her hair on her wedding day. The rose at the edge of the tattoo is in tribute to his grandmother.