man wearing brown sunglasses

We met during an art fair. Upon inquiring, the gentleman indicated he marked himself to create space between himself an others. “I don’t want people to get too close,” he said. He later indicated, without specificity that he had been hurt deeply many years ago and his tattoos were a way to keep people at bay. He consented to my image creations, and since that day our paths have crossed a few times, and he smiles at me as if to invite me closer. Nice man.