David Bowie’s spouse, Iman, marked the tenth anniversary of her husband’s passing on Saturday by getting a tattoo of the paintings from his closing album, ★ (Blackstar).
Iman shared a video on Instagram of herself getting the tattoo. Within the accompanying caption, she wrote, “Jan. tenth. The ache didn’t vanish.. It left instead a loving everlasting mark. #BowieForever.”
Jonathan Barnbrook, who designed the paintings for David Bowie’s closing album Blackstar, defined its that means in a previous interview with Dezeen: “This was a person who was going through his personal mortality. The Blackstar image [★], fairly than writing ‘Blackstar,’ has as a form of finality, a darkness, a simplicity, which is a illustration of the music…
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“The thought of mortality is in there, and naturally the concept of a black gap sucking in every part, the Large Bang, the beginning of the universe, if there may be an finish of the universe. These are issues that relate to mortality.”