Berlin resident Nate Doden used to paint a lot of tattoos on her skin, and a few years ago she added a small picture of a cat's head on her finger in memory of her cat Johnny who died.

"I used to love Johnny's cat," said Dodden, who runs a tattoo studio called "Blood and Iron" in the Prenzlauer Berg suburb of Berlin.

In a new social phenomenon, people increasingly choose to express their sorrows through tattoos, whether the deceased is a pet or close to the family, and sorrows have become a livelihood for painters on the skin in Germany.

While Bodo Fritzche said from a group called "Life Without You" to console and support the people who lost their relatives, some groups and links that provide support to the consolation and consolation are now allowing people to bring their tattoo artists to inspire innovative drawings.

Fritzche, who ran for 18 years a support group for parents who lost their children, explains that "15 years ago this trend was not noticeable at all, but now we find that the majority of parents mourn their children who have died by drawing a tattoo on their bodies as an expression of their horror."

He adds that «a man finally chose a drawing of a tattoo bearing the first letters of the name of his sister, who is a ceramic artist, and she was always signing her works with these letters.

Artist Stephanie Oft-Giffarth, journalist and expert on the pain of loss, Catherine Harting, presented a closer look at this phenomenon and organized the exhibition "The Tattoos of Sorrows", which took place in a tour of Germany for three years.

"It is very interesting to see people who have come to bear the sorrows of tattoos, and they have not had any tattoos before, but rather they express their hatred or rejection of these drawings," said artist Jeffreyarth.

While Pinke says, “If you experience something that affects your state of being, you will become more audacious.” He adds that worrying if the tattoo is socially acceptable will be hidden in the back seat during times of sadness. In the exhibition and in a book accompanying it, many sad people were given the opportunity to express their feelings. For example, we find the case of Ann Schweiger, whose 30-year-old brother committed suicide, and his memory is now taking the form of the upper part of the clover plant on her wrist.

"In fact, I am not at all the type that chooses to tattoo a tattoo on her skin," she says, adding that after nine months have passed since her brother's death I felt that drawing a tattoo as an expression of this accident and about her grief is the right decision.

While Norbert Mukache from another group to support the bereaved, "things that were common and usual in our culture to express sadness like black mourning clothes were replaced by tattoos."

He adds that tattoos allow people to go through their sorrows peacefully by showing that they are sad for the person's loss, but perhaps also by feeling physically sad through tattoos.

In this regard, Schweiger says, "The tattoo helped me to express my sorrows, especially in the early days because it made my brother something somewhat tangible."

This trend was not noticeable 15 years ago, but now most fathers mourn their children with a tattoo.

The exhibition «tattoo of sorrows»

He toured throughout Germany for two

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