My name is Bex and I made my first tattoo experience at 14 years with a sewing needle on my toes.
Becoming 18, I got myself a machine and tattooed my friends here & there, until I took a long break to focus on my career as a photographer, mainly working on my exhibitions.
Well, living academic gallery life, I’ve missed a feeling of actual impact, close contact to clients and pressure-free authenticity.
Gaining distance to academical arts brought me closer to craftsmanship & commissional work again, until 2024 the work of Nicola Asura inspired me to finally re-start tattooing – this time with much more dedication.
Let’s call my motives bone-rohrschach-floral-abstract-biomech-ish.
Mostly I freestyle, so apparently they are a random result of my intense interest for anatomy, botanics and the biological processes of death – touched up with sympathy for symmetry, love for image language, and a previous Minijob in Pathology.
Future-wise I’m aiming big freehanded projects like those of Nicola Asura (AT) and Kali (UK) and regular Guest Spots in cold countries like Sweden, Norway and Iceland.
On my own body, tattoos manifest a social experience.
When I see them, their “meaning” or intention behind is only the second thought – first I think about the person who has done them and how I felt in that individual setting.
Did I really experience consensus? Did I feel like I could demand what I individually need anytime without guilt? Did I not would’ve preferred the stencil a teeny-tiny bit more to the left?
That’s why creating a safe space for my clients is the highest priority.
Meaning I engage to be picky, check-in regularly and make clear there’s no need to proof how much pain you can easily endure here.
Pain is hard to predict and people are individual – as our beautiful bodies are.
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