Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I told Shane (Faulkner, King of Fools, Toronto) that I wouldn't post the tattoo for a week so the shading would show through the colour he laid over top of it in the background. I guess the next session (which is about ten days after my biopsy, so I don't think it'll collide with any surgery) will see the figures, chains, and the rest of what's left coloured as well as the barn. Here's a shot that Saira took at yesterday's swim.

We're just about done, so I need to put together the artwork for the rib/belly panels that finish the chest… Each panel is as sexually explicit as the top panel (exploring the cultural and personal importance and necessity of the expression of sexuality, especially extreme sexuality, is what I consider to have been my “life's work” and passion up to now), but in a different theme.

Other than that, I've slept something like 24 hours in the last 48 hours. It's crazy, given that I usually only sleep three or four hours a night. I'm not really sure why I slept so much but I feel like I've been very wiped out… I imagine I'm quite sick, but because of the winter swimming, I don't exhibit most of the symptoms (that's one of the 'benefits' of swimming in the cold).

Last night I went to bed early (I think around eight), and a friend called me and I'm like “what time is it?” and they're like “ten”, and then I'm all confused (“in the morning?”) because I don't know why it's so dark. Anyway, time to process a few more Winter Swim photos and then off to the gym.