Permanently changing their skin people who enjoy receiving tattoos are able to alter their bodies to their own liking. People who suffer with outward physical burns or other disfigurements use tattoos to alter these deformities in order to return to a sense of normalcy. My mother is a two-time breast cancer survivor. Due to her breast cancer she had two separate mastectomies and had both of her nipples removed as a result. Following her procedures, she felt incomplete and less of a woman because she was missing such a normal and feminine feature of her body. To fix this insecurity, she received specially crafted tattoos to create the appearance of nipples and restore her confidence. Jonathan Jones notes in his article that, “The modern art
