Sigh...me too. I haven't been in the chair since the summer. My Tattoo artist probably thinks I left him.
there were a few months where i'd call my artist every now and then just to say, "hi, i'm not going somewhere else, i'm not stopping the project, i'm just broke! but i'll make an appoinement sometime! i just wanted you to know i intend to come back" and he was always like, whatever, cool, so that made me feel silly.
call your artist and let him know you still care!
do you agree that there's a certain intimacy in tattooing? when i get work done by different artist, i feel like i'm cheating. and if i don't call afterwards, im afraid it's like how youre supposed to call people you sleep with the next day. i had an artist skip town and i took it personally like he walked out on me! i cried!
so i think i think they think that way too.... but they don't, lol.