ENG 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tattoo Machine, Mountain Xpress, French Broad River
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Color outside the lines by ami worthen the mountain xpress. We were all born with a purpose and a special gift, says miya bailey, and his own life is proof. As founder of city of ink, a thriving tattoo shop and art gallery in atlanta, he found his talent early. Bailey began developing his particular purpose and gift in the housing projects of. Bailey spent his early childhood living in the klondyke apartments at the end of montford. Later, his family moved to the southside neighborhood near the erskine street apartments, then to west asheville across from pisgah view apartments. Not the asheville of tourism brochures, the neighborhood was not always a comfortable place. As he puts it, i was made into a man in west asheville. From early on, bailey was encouraged to create. My mother made me draw every single day, so she nurtured my talent, my family nurtured my talent, he explains.
