Carol Rose Article Summary

My article of choice is “On pins and needles defending artistic expression” this article was posted on boston.com on April 8, 2010, written by Carol Rose. Carol Rose is a really busy woman, graduating from Stanford University and Harvard Law school, Carol is the executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, starting in January 2003, an attorney specializing in First Amendment and media law, intellectual property, civil rights, and international human rights law , and a journalist. “Carol has spent her career advocating for human rights and civil liberties both in the United States and abroad, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Japan, Sri Lanka, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Northern Ireland, and Vietnam”. (https://aclum.org/about/staff-advocates/carol-rose/).
In this article Carol is speaking about how tattoos are too a form of art. You paint with paint brushes and a canvas, you take photographs with a camera and film, and you tattoo on an individual's skin, they are all forms of art. No Carol doesn't have any tattoos, but that doesn't affect her opinion on it still being art. Everyone should be able to express themselves no matter what the

canvas is. Carols claim is claims of policy. Claims of policy is a policy which is the solution of a problem. With this issue Carol is trying to speak out for individuals to be able to use the artistic expression how they choose to do so. “So just how far does the tattoo tradition date back? The first known tattoo — of a moustache — was discovered on a South American mummy from 6,000 B.C.”(http://magazine.foxnews.com/style-beauty/origin-ink-tattoos-through-time). “
But the 1991 discovery of the "Iceman" in the Alps, whose corpse dates back about 5,300 years, revealed tattoos that were used for a different purpose.” (http://magazine.foxnews.com/style-beauty/origin-ink-tattoos-through-time).

So why should we as people be able to express our artistic fews legally where we want to. I feel that since tattoos are a form or art and have been for many years then all forms of art should be illegal then too. But thats not going to happen. I personally feel that the argument Carol Rose is arguing is an effective argument. I personally have tattoos and every one of this is something different, they are all something deer to me and I use my body art to express that love. Individuals use different ways to express there artistic self. The way they dress, there job, there writings,

anything.