From begging our mothers to let us get our ears pierced in elementary school to the rite of passage that is the 18th birthday tattoo, body modification is engrained in many human cultures, including American society. Body modification has lasted the tests of time and developed independently in societies around the world, and while some look down on it for its bad connotations, many others embrace it as a means of expression, community and spirituality.
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Ithaca’s Tattoos: The Graffiti in Downtown Ithaca
by Kaley Belval December 5, 2011I looked at the graffiti in Ithaca, and I realized that it was, in a way, the city’s own set of tattoos. The graffiti is something that helps to define Ithaca’s “body,” something that characterizes its “soul”: the people that make up its population.