Tattoo

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My mind is blown. I never thought that someday my art would be tattooed on someone's body. But it happened. Jamie Coulthard from the United Kingdom had one of my go-related artworks tattooed on his arm. It's a surreal and humbling feeling. Thank you, Jamie, you're rocking it.
This go shape - the black stones - is called "kame no kou" in Japanese (亀の甲), translating to "the tortoise shell". Its Chinese and Korean names mean the same (龟甲 and 거북등 respectively). My drawing is a pun, showing "the tortoise shell" on the shell of a tortoise.

I made the original black and white drawing with pen on paper in 2014. It is owned by Dutch go-collector Theo van Ees.

Jamie and his tattoo of "The Tortoise Shell", holding a framed A3-sized poster of "Sniffing the Third Line"

The original, drawn in 2014.