A Tatted Up TJ

People, in general, get tattoos to show something that they are passionate about, something they are proud of, or in memory of something important. When most people think of Thomas Jefferson, one of the first things that come to mind is that he was president and that he wrote the Declaration of Independence and that he was president of the United States. For those reasons, I think that Thomas Jefferson would get an American flag or something along those lines as part of his tattoo. Also Thomas Jefferson is so passionate about his architecture and Monticello, and how he designed the house. In honor of that I put two common architecture details on his tattoo, two columns with the triangle at the top. These features are very prominent in both the design of his house and the design of the University of Virginia. So by including a structure and feature common in architecture and the design of buildings, one can understand that Jefferson was very much into, and very passionate about architecture. The final aspect I put on Jefferson’s tattoo was a music note. Although music notes are very typical tattoos for people to get, mixing the aspect of the architecture and the music note it almost resembles a quote Jefferson had, comparing architecture to music. Thomas Jefferson was also very passionate about music, playing the violin quite greatly. This tattoo for the most part sums up the three, possibly four things that Thomas Jefferson loved more than any other things. These being his country, his architecture and Monticello, and his music.