Now, private tattoo studios dominate the business. The landscape of the tattoo industry has changed a great deal since then. The trans artist began tattooing his friends and members of his immediate community. In 2015, he threw his own pen in the ring. Hobrecker slowly began to build his bodily art collection, but in a small way. “I was really excited about the prospect of being able to get a tattoo because that was the first opportunity I had to make a choice for my body that couldn't be reversed by someone else.” After years of digging for the perfect symbol, he got “some very silly text on my ribs.” In those hallways, rules governed the minutiae of students’ self-expression. “I was a queer kid who was going to an all-girls Catholic school and I had very little control over my appearance,” he explains. The degree of mental preparation, in Hobrecker’s case, correlates inversely to his number of tattoos the first one was a long time coming. “I just think that is one where placement just feels so perfect.” Traced hands stamp the majority of his back, a piece he says he did “on a whim.” “I had seen in someone's flash and I was like, ‘Would you be down to do this on my whole back?’” Of the roughly 100 tattoos spanning the surface of the artist’s body, few secured premeditation. “The reason I love it is not really based on the meaning, which is, I mean, pretty trivial realistically,” he reflects. The silhouette of a horsebit crisscrosses his throat-this is the self-described horse girl’s current favorite tattoo. Mars Hobrecker would like to dispel the notion that every tattoo has to convey some grand deeper meaning.
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