OUR BODY
craft · Issue 01
The machine as instrument
A custom workshop in Berlin builds tattoo machines one coil at a time. Inside the obsessive world of the people who make the tools that make the work.
culture · Issue 01
American traditional, re-read
The flash on the wall is older than you think. A new generation is reading the motifs of American traditional tattooing as a language of memory, not a museum of clichés.
culture · Issue 01
Irezumi and the architecture of the back
The back is the largest canvas in tattooing, and in irezumi it is treated like a building: load-bearing, symmetrical, and built to last a lifetime.
studio · Issue 01
Studio visits: four rooms that feel like churches
We asked four artists to describe the rooms where they work. The answers were less about equipment and more about light, silence and ritual.
studio · Issue 01
The apprenticeship year
Sweeping floors, stretching stencils, and watching. What a first year inside a tattoo studio actually teaches — and what it costs.
city · Issue 01
City of needles: a walking tour of London tattoo shops
From a basement in Camden to a converted chapel in Peckham, London’s tattoo shops are a map of the city’s recent history.