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hi,
thanks for your interest in receiving my first ever newsletter dispatch :-) I appreciate it and hope you’re weathering this time well and with lots of rest.
My intentions and hopes for this newsletter format is that it can serve to collage together elements of my thoughts, writing scraps, and artwork, as well as serve as a periodic booking + flash update for those interested in getting tattoed by me. Much of my process is very interior, and flows non-linearly, so pouring these various bits into this format is as much a way of me trying to get a clearer look at my work and serve as an archive as it is to share a bit more of my work + self with others.
I’m also hoping that this format will allow for more flexibility, and distance from such heavy reliance on instagram for sharing my work. Having so much of my practice revolve around making myself visible on the grid and subject myself and my work to the algorithm admittedly messes with my brain— it’s not a platform that fosters much room for nuance and play, as everything on it is subjected to and flattened by the same capitalist code. Giving this format a try feels like it might breathe a little more room into the ways that I am able to share myself and my work with those interested in engaging. I’m feeling hopeful about the ways that we can all take accountability for our own attention, intentionally turn ourselves and our time towards that which feeds us, towards interdependent agency, and away from extractive processes and platforms wherever possible. Thoughtful sharing of our time, attention, selves, words, images, resources, passwords, spaces … etc.
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Petite Tattooing Update: as of right now I have plenty of availability to tattoo in February in baltimore.
I’m also hoping to travel this year, all things permitting. In the coming months (Feb-March TBD) I’m hoping to visit Richmond and New York. Later this year I’d love to travel to the west coast ~ LA, Sacramento, Bay Area, Denver, Austin, Pacific Northwest ?? If you’re in any of these places, or if you’re interested in travel dates elsewhere, send me an email! I’ll be sure to notify you if/when I make it happen.
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Ok here’s some drawings I’d love to tattoo, mixed in with some reference photos, things I keep coming back to, etc~ hope you enjoy :-)
I often ask clients what media they’ve been consuming lately because I always love hearing about what other people have been absorbing. to wrap this up I’ll reciprocate and share a bit of what’s been feeding me:
drawings refs and this season’s textural moodboard have been lots of old carved runes, specifically celtic, and pictures of old stone walls, especially with lichen
music this month has been mostly the Roches, Beverly Glenn-Gopeland, Kelsey Lu, Zsela (AOV remixes), Oklou
embodied astrology podcast, alice sparkly kat (their writings generally and this interview), Andrew Weil’s Breathing, and James Nestor’s Breath both via library audiobook, idea of gatebreak culture ✌️
thanks for looking <3
gratitude, warmth, solidarity,
kilynne