My tattoo art practice represents a way of radical becoming, an attempt to deterritorialize notions of pain, death, taboo, and crime by recognizing its power to transform and transmute. The necessity of painful sensations, the question of im/mortality, and the culture surrounding socially unrecognized or even criminalized practices—tattooing interrogates the hegemony of the human body, life, and death. It suggests that there is no prescribed way for our bodies to look or for our lives to be lived, challenging the norms of physicality and embodiment. My tattooing is mindful of these contexts, becoming radical in the sense that it facilitates liberation from traditional body image standards.

In this sense, my tattoo works visually remembers and archives personal and collective memories and stories, addressing themes such as life, death, trauma, pain, and resistance. Through the juxtaposition of dark yet delicate imageries drawn from nature—infused with a necroaesthetic sensibility, which explores the beauty and life found in the decay and death— I provide tattoo art as a complex experience that ignites a transformative dialogue on the complexities of human experience and embodiment.


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