Butterfly Tattoo — Slave

Some use the butterfly as a "messenger" between the living and the ancestors, symbolizing a connection that could not be broken by the shackles of slavery. Design Variations

Placing the design on the wrists is a direct reference to where restraints were once held, symbolizing that the hands are now free. slave butterfly tattoo

Elara didn’t remember her life before the ink. Her earliest memory was the rhythmic thrum-hiss Some use the butterfly as a "messenger" between