HARM
TATTOOING
My journey into tattooing started in 2017, I struggled to find a tattoo artist who shared my vision of what I wanted to create, so I began to produce my own artwork. Every piece of art was made with the original intention of being used as a tattoo for my own body. I started tattooing other people in the basement of a barber shop in Shoreditch but realised quickly that this setting didn’t resonate with me, it conflicted with another interest I was developing at the same time; sharmonic ceremony and ritual. Everything reaches its fullest potential in a ceremony and tattoos should be no different. I began to play with the concept of an inking ceremony, a baptism of ink, a setting of intentions with each mark I made on a body. I broke away from my first studio and set up base on my canalboat in London, I started to work in a way that incorporated not just my art and the ink but the healing and spiritual practises I was building alongside them.
Harm is the trigger, healing is the process
HARM
Harm, when considered in isolation, is often painted as a purely negative experience, we fear harm and the word alone can trigger a response. By giving this word a platform I intend to explore its role within our collective healing journeys and honour its necessity as one half of the whole . I’ve learnt that harm is the initiation point, through harm we find opportunity and impetus for growth. Harm is Heal; just as stillness gives birth to movement, darkness brings light and silence is a stage for sound. Harm, be it physical or emotional, is a call to prayer, the title of our next chapter and a conscious return to our deepest need to heal.
Harm and heal, essential opposites of the same truth
Harm, seen as the negative. Healing the positive but each being opposite ends of the same thing.
The word harm has negative connotations, but it is the essential trigger for the healing journey. Harm IS heal
Harm is healing
