Don't Forget Flames

by Zip
(Riga, Latvia)

Well the idea of this flame tattoo came about 3 year earlier than I made it. I liked the band Linkin Park then really much. I can even say, I was a great fan then (and I still am). So I wanted something, connected with the LP, but not the concrete meaning, logo or the name of the band. I understood well, that one day my fan's love could fade away. Besides I didn't wanted to copy Chester's tattoo , even thought I still think it is my favourite tattoo ever. 'Why not to take a piece of it and make something by myself?' I thought.

Time passed, but the idea of the flame was still common for me.

There was another important incedent - my quarrel with the best friend. We did not communicate for more than half a year, and When I decided to write her letter with excuses, I enclosed the sheet of paper with the words 'Don't Forget'. It came with the LP's new CD Minutes to Midnight, she gave me. So I returned it back, reminding her about our broken friendship.
That's how the idea of the blue flames came to my head. The whole idea is never forgetting my youth, everything that meant so much to me, even if it won't be so important then.

I'm really chronophobic - I have a phobia to grow up a boring old lady.