Matching Tattoo

I met Andrew sitting barside at Terroir, a wine bar tucked into Tribeca, years ago while each of us would visit friends working behind the bar. We spoke often of tattoos, as we’re both decently inked. As time passed, he brought up that he likes to get matching tattoos with people, both friends and strangers alike. Andrew approached me in late summer 2022 to have one excursion documented in Washington Square Park, we quickly met this man who agreed to get a dead pigeon, as he had just seen one fall from the sky. To me, it was a little reminder of a certain serendipitous New York energy, of making friends at random and carrying something shared from these brief interludes.