Scio nescio, I like. Philosophically, very similar.

I understand where you're coming from on the placement, style, etc. I have been drawing and planning my 'body art', if you will, since I was a young teenager. I'm twenty-four now. It took me a while to arrive at just what exactly was powerful enough and meaningful enough to me to permanently etch it in my hide and display it to the world.

The font choice was actually fairly easy. At first I was thinking something very fluid at a glance -- in other words, no block lettering or background scroll work. The root of the word is in ancient Indo-Asian linguistics, so something fluid would be appropriate to that style of writing and the alphabets of those languages.

Then I realized that this is ignorance we're talking about here, and ignorance is bold... It is bold, and complicated, and it ensnares the mind and spirit. After that realization, the font choice became rather easy.

To me, the text is bold and plain to represent the stark nature of ignorance -- the black and white sheen that it casts on our perception of reality, if you will -- and the scroll work is intricate and difficult to follow because so too is the path away from ignorance.

I am planning on getting a lower sleeve to compliment the text. The exact content of the sleeve is still in the planning stages, but I've been thinking of surrounding the text with a prison wall styled after a white picket fence. The artwork would be an odd mix of idyllic themes with subtle signs of decay. Essentially the American Dream as seen through the rose-colored prism of ignorance.

My left arm, prajna, will be dedicated to the cold realities of this world, along with the natural beauty of life as seen without the lens of ignorance -- for just as ignorance shields us from much pain, so too does it shield us from much beauty.