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On November 13, 2015, she survived the attacks that targeted the Bataclan hall, in the middle of a concert. Following this event, Natasha decided to become a tattoo artist, and to ink in her this fateful evening. For Brut., she tells.
“I think that the people who got away with it, who got a tattoo, it’s like saying to themselves: ‘Well, I lived that thing, it’s in me.’“Natasha, on the evening of November 13, 2015, goes to the Eagles of Death Metal concert, at the Bataclan. The concert hall will be the target of a terrorist attack, as will several other places in Paris. Having survived the events, she chose the tattoo to reclaim this evening, which marked her for life. “It’s already the fact of having done it that reclaims the moment for you. It’s like stopping the moment, having done it on you, actually.”
“Me, I know that this tattoo, whereas I did it at noon of that day, it represents well what I would have done to myself, certainly, afterNatasha thinks. “It was a bit like a premonitory tattoo, this cross full of blood. Having it is like protection. I said to myself: ‘it protected me’. The fact that you have it on you is poof, period. Or: period, I turn the page. Afterwards, not everyone got a tattoo either, but a lot.”
For Natasha, what she experienced pushed her to change her profession and become a tattoo artist. “It may have given me the strength to say to myself ‘and shit, I’m doing it’, what. Maybe I wouldn’t be a tattoo artist, indeed, if it hadn’t happened to me. It’s terrible to tell yourself that, all the same, that such an event has to happen. It triggers a lot of things, like it allows you to relativize a lot about life and what people think of you, because you almost went through it anyway”, she explains.