Who did your tattoo: Cody Hincks from Seventh Circle Tattoo in Woolloongabba [inner-city Brisbane].

Where on your body is your tattoo located: Inside of my right forearm.

What does your tattoo mean to you: Well, it is the cabin from the artwork of the second album [Bon Iver, Bon Iver] and it symbolises the cabin in which Justin Vernon wrote the first album in [For Emma, Forever Ago] which are tied as my favourite Bon Iver records. I feel like the tattoo ties both of those albums together and represents both isolation and creating something really beautiful out of something really sad, which I was at the time: isolated and sad. The tattoo is a sketch done by a friend of mine that I decided to put inside an empty circle I already had. Cody just literally tattooed the sketch, so it means even more to me now because it was my friend’s interpretation of the artwork tattooed onto me. He really copied all of the lines that she drew exactly so it was really a collaborative effort.

When did you get your tattoo: Want to know something stupid? I looked this up today, I showed my friend the slip with my quote on it and it said “29th of the 2nd 2019”. That’s not a real date! It’s not a leap year. So I got it done on an imaginary day. I think he meant to write the first.

What does Bon Iver mean to you: Oh wow, when For Emma came out in 2007, I think that was really the cusp of when streaming was becoming a big thing. For me it was really the last time that I would have music on my iPod. Whenever I’d get on a bus I’d just play that album and now we all have access to everything. Whatever your favourite band is this week is probably something you found out about last month. So those first albums were something that I had on my computer that I put on to go to sleep every night. I don’t think anything from that point forward will have the same effect on me, because we don’t possess music the same way as we used to.