Nancy Savoie’s body is covered in tattoos. Some represent different struggles, and others showcase her triumphs. Some of her tattoos she got simply because she found them visually beautiful.
“I like to have my story on me,” she said.
Savoie got this tattoo of Winnie the Pooh after she split up with her last boyfriend. She said after they broke up “I couldn’t feel anything, I just cried continuously.”
Savoie’s life spiralled out of control, and she turned towards physically destructive habits. Savoie said she made the decision to transfer from unhealthy coping mechanisms to getting tattoos. This tattoo is specifically dedicated to that time in her life.
Savoie said “I have a fear that people will forget me and it’ll be like we were nothing.”
“Pooh Bear doesn’t make things more complicated than it is everything he says is sincere and legit. The handwriting is not super proper, one of the i’s is lower case; it’s just fitting.”
Savoie’s father passed away this summer. To commemorate their relationship she got this tattoo.
“Dad and I were really different, but the same,” she said, “it represents how our programming won’t change.”
Savoie said she chose a more “old school” type robot to represent her dad and a newer model to represent herself.
Savoie copes with manic depression. She said when she goes manic she loses her ability to feel, and tattoos help her get through those times.
Savoie said her tattoos also help her feel less self conscious, because she said it’s easy to tell herself that when people look at her they’re just looking at her tattoos.
Savoie said she chose these lyrics from the song “Devil Knows Your Dead” as another tattoo for her dad because it was the last song played at his funeral. Her dad was very physically active and went running almost every day, and Savoie said when she hears the song she pictures him running.
The tattoos of Wall-E and Eve were purely for the love of the movie Wall-E. Savoie said the strength Eve has, and the simplicity of their love story was striking to her.
