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Today we're sharing Aurélie Forge's piece that she sent in.
Of this tattoo inspired by the Rennie-commissioned Martin Creed piece on their building in Chinatown, she says:
I arrived in Vancouver in June 2010 (I left in May 2011 to go back to France), and I have to say, I was really homesick for the first month... I couldn't find a job, I had no money, I didn't know a lot of people in Vancouver etc. and I left behind me, in France, my boyfriend, homies, family... that was just really tough, and I really thought that I should go home and give up... But I didn't! And one day, I was on the skytrain, going Downtown, and I saw, from Chinatown, on a building : "Everything is going to be alright"... and I thought, "You know what? Just enjoy Lilie, this too shall pass". And I was right. I had the most amazing and rich year of my life. I made long life friends, I grew up so much, learned so much about myself and the others... so this tattoo, this sentence, is really important for me, because no matter where life is going to put me on, I know everything is going to be alright... Because everything happens for a reason. This tattoo was like a picture of me at the time, just happy as I ever been! The coordinates are my hometown in France, exactly where I was born, and English Bay...
