Siin on Nostr: Ritual inkwork, sternum The idea was a straight line (cut into the center of the ...

Ritual inkwork, sternum

The idea was a straight line (cut into the center of the chest during my most recent ritual performance), bisection, duality, regeneration & the straddling of lines (and barriers, and borders).

But as I was doing the torturous work of connect the dots between pounding heartbeats, lacking the leverage to properly stretch, suffering for this idea of this perfect straight line, I began to shift states, and without thinking began freehanding in a way I would be incapable of on paper. I have never been great at abstraction, only distortion, and perhaps this is what this is, but I could not have pre-drawn this tattoo, it just had to emerge for itself.

So much more than bisection, nuanced and raw, freed of perfection.

I would love to do more like this. This was transformative, beautiful, and energizing.

*Hand tattoos shown all by me. Forward shoulder tattoo done by Denise Texeira Pinto in LA, upper stomach tattoo done by Hunter Cross in Grand Rapids, MI*

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