Mary Tewksbury is a whiskey-swiggin’, bluegrass-pickin’ singer-songwriter from upstate New York, who frequently performs solo, as well as with the band Next to Kin. She got this tattoo to carry with her a representation of “strong and beautiful women taking a hold of life.” For Tewks, this concept is bound up with her love of music. She chose the spot for her ink — her right upper arm — based upon the old idea that the right side of the body conveys a public image to the world (when having one’s palms read, for example, the right palm frequently suggests what personal traits one is comfortable displaying as a public image, or the identity you want to project to people around you). “This is the comfortable side of me,” she explains. “Music is my truest passion in lfe.”
Her tattoo artist, , has spent the past several years working at , a tattoo shop in upstate New York.
