The place from which fine art, ephemera, and community practice emerges, and the destination all these expressions lead to, are shared by the interface vehicle that is my personal somatic practice of Tattoo.
Rooted in my pre-established work as a commerical fine-artist & lifelong energy practitioner for years prior to tattooing professionally, for the past nine years, I’ve approached tattooing not purely as aesthetic adornment, but as a vehicle for embodied spiritual principles & artistic symbolism coupled with direct community engagement - it’s a way to give and receive what is intended in my fine art work and larger visions for psychosocial reality within a time of change, via the container and support of our session. Direct from my hand and heart to the human asking for the work - tattooing as an artist and energetic practitioner is an act of committing work as a visual timestamp while the alchemical interfacing & client’s desire is also inscribed and transmitted to their life, working directly with their body and personhood. The marks made are a manifestation of my practice but more importantly, the openness and trust of the client and retention of their beingness, & the work is not in isolation or solitude, but in communal reception, activated by the everyday life of the client that will live as one with, in, and beyond the art. As an artist my work becomes invaluable and inimitable beyond the page, because it exists rhizomatically with the client, long after we have parted.
My practice in this modality thrives at the intersection of a visual energetic container, and my role as a somatic interfacer, space holder, and energetic steward which I became more confident about through my emboldening of meditation and reiki practices which began more than a decade ago and are central to my own life. Intuitive generativity has been my lifelong way of navigating creativity, where creation and the choice to produce vision into form is not only expressive but devotional to the larger metaphysics that suspend and ground the effort, sustaining purpose beyond understanding. Hosting clients who share this desire for devotion and expression is my motivation, too.
In my process clients arrive carrying potentials asking for release, renewal, or rerouting and the tattoo session becomes an incubator for that energetic process. They often leave with more clarity on what is discussed or quietly held, and most commonly, they leave freer to hold themselves. There are many testimonies citing this, and it has been one of my greatest joys and sense of fulfillment to know, which is how it came to be almost a decade working in this field so deeply divorced from its indigenous, spiritual, cultural roots.
Tattoo for me is relational, attentive, and grounded in trust. I hold this work with seriousness, care, and reverence for its unmatched capacity to transmute and transform.
I am currently booking a small number of sessions per season. If you feel called to work together, I invite you to reach out. You can receive daily updates, see my current tattoo work and book with me directly on my social media here.
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Tattoo as Energetic Mark-Making
A little reflection.
In the safety of a tattoo session an energetic exchange unfolds whether spoken on or not. Tattoo allows an act of human presence steeped in mutuality, such presence is a form of love. Through direct artist to client conduit and channel, the art often inaccessible within the limits of industry, optics, and power dynamics, becomes a living mark, dynamically activated through the body and emotional, energetic, and intellectual processing of the client and the active laying down of line, colour, gesture and intention from me.
Each piece is a moment of transmission: my generative prayers and offerings as an artist and the validation of the witness are visible in the tattoo yes, but mutually felt too - an absolute transgression of limits, using biofeedback, communion, as a third space of strength opens a portal to deeper selfhood.
I am grateful that this practice has reached beyond aesthetics as was intended always - as a fine artist debuting professionally in 2013, my goal within the industry was to create and hold a space for heart-based communion and activation through witnessing and living with, moving among, and choosing to receive my art work. Tattoo, when it came into my life in 2017, proved quickly to be a deeply way for me to achieve those same goals and intentions, but so directly, with more robust call and response, and reciprocal exchange. The drawing is never separate from the person receiving it, and once the session is over, the artwork gets to be animated and live on through the life of the person, until they are gone. To me, it is a precious way to allow the alchemy of art as sacred transmission and metaphysical capture, to breathe.
The body is new; the soul is old. Tattooing can bridge the split of these states and have the session serve as conversation; with myself as the steward, and the client as the activator. I have witnessed again and again how people arrive in one form and leave clothed with more, the tattoo being a mark of proof —This is not a transformation I impose, but a shift I witness and respond to with the consent and request of the client. What I hold space for are my symbolic systems via art and the energetic nuances, my knowledge of embodiment, meditation and practice to steward the client in alignment with their desired and needed inner paths and portals.
My background in fine art and my own life of intimate energetic structure inform the way I approach tattooing: every line carries metaphor, every gesture carries intention. Unlike my work on paper, which live in stillness until exhibited, tattoos move with a person through time. They are worn into life, integrated into memory, and made sacred by embodiment.
Tattooing is an ancient, indigenous practice of memory, power, and continuity, which found me and catalyzed my life into one of more energetic integrity and community. I don’t take it lightly. I draw from a lifetime of intuitive language bearing, that has defined my self-determination and sense of power since childhood—and I offer it with the intention of planting those same active seeds to blossom with each client as their own fruit.
Each tattoo is a one-of-one collaboration, created in real time. I do not repeat designs. I draw directly from the moment we are in. The resulting piece becomes more than image—it becomes a signal, a grounding, a threshold made visible.
This limb of my practice may not be for everyone, but if you feel called to the alchemy of healing the split between body and spirit, and my work resonates as that bridge, you are welcome to join it.
