Through the years I got inspired by a lot of different styles in tattooing. First Illustrative and Oldschool tattooing, later the Japanese bodysuits gave me fire in my blood and after that I searched for the ornamental and Tribal shapes.
Abstract and tribal tattooing has a language of its own, animals, plants and concepts are made into pictograms, almost distilled to their most rudimentary form. The language of hidden symbolism tells me more everyday and the abstract shapes make their way into my tattoos.
Making a Maori or Borneo inspired sleeve is something that for me doesn’t feel natural, I want to work with the shapes that entwine with my European roots. I am appreciating more and more the patterns that our European ancestors used, not only for their aesthetics but also for their hidden power. Every pattern is connected to something, a powerful animal, a healing plant or pointing to the celestial world.
If we can connect with our ancestry line, connect with the Earth and the sky and their nourishing powers, then we can find ways to continue writing the mystic language of symbolism, and unravel it so that we can embody our past, present and future.
So which animal or plant in your everyday environment is sacred to you? What ingredient gives you the fuel for expanding into a powerful vessel of love?
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