Spirulina Tattoo

Getting to know your Tattoo Artist

I am a multi-disciplinary artist currently living and working in the United States and Europe. I regularly visit and set up shop in Philadelphia, NYC, Montpellier, and Sommieres. I’ve been an artist all my life, but for what its worth, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2015.

How I came to sharing my art on your body…

I have always drawn organic, biological, botanical fantasies and didn’t really understand what role they played in my art. I wasn’t convinced that their existence should merely be on the flat surfaces of a paper, canvas or wall. They needed to exist somewhere else, but hadn't yet found their place. And so for a few years they slept, but every so often they’d appear, hovering over a line of text in my journal, finding their way back in some poetic way.

 My focus has always been exploring the way we interact with "raw material” and how that relationship was created, from micro to macro. How did we go from looking at a rock to discovering and understanding that the substance we were looking at was more? That gold could be molded and hammered into jewelry, that gypsum could be turned into plaster, that aspirin is inspired by the willow bark, how fossil fuels are just that: fossils. I am also fascinated with the hidden world, the invisible life that exists on everything and anything, and the life found in what was presumed dead.  

I expressed these curiosities through performance art, installations, sculpture, and yet my shapes would creep back into my work somehow. I found myself going back to drawing, painting, sculpting, and incorporating these shapes into my work, and yet they still weren’t fully comfortable on inert surfaces.

Slowly, little things happened that opened my eyes to the possibilities of drawing these shapes on bodies. That this was perhaps the home they’d been looking for: to adorn and decorate flesh. They could reside somewhere and exist, travel and age with someone. (As I wrote this passage, tears came to my eyes.) 

I first encountered the world of tattooing when I was in my very early teens. It was just something that I was naturally drawn to, and always have been. It took many years from the first moment I poked my leg with a needle and ink, to inscribing these shapes into other bodies.

Finally today, I am proud to have found them a permanent ever evolving surface, where they can experience and accompany you all on this very strange adventure called life.