My tattooed bodysuit is a revival of my ancestral Nlaka’pamux visual language, it tells my life story, place and purpose in the world.
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My most recent tattoo are the white additional markings on my face, I did myself as a traditional hand poke tattoo practitioner. I did the ceremony during the solar eclipse new moon to call in my light and reclaim my power. The design came through my dreams with messages to embrace my gifts of ancestral channeling and grounding my gifts on my life path.
If your ink could speak, what would it say?It would share the story of intergenerational trauma, healing and empowerment, speaking to the transformation journey of a little girl with big dreams growing into a warrior goddess with endless possibilities, breaking cycles and becoming liberated through tattoo medicine. I am the first and only Nlaka’pamux woman to carry a Nlaka’pamux Blackwork bodysuit in our current time so it would also speak to the erasure of our traditional practices and revival of ancestral skin markings.
What would you do with the $25,000?I would invest in more of my own traditional hand poke tattoo studio equipment and get myself set up as a multidisciplinary artist in my new home in the Yukon.
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