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culture
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Issue 01 · By Sofia Lindqvist
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.
Issue 01 · By Kenjiro Hase
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.
Issue 01 · By Mara Voss
Scratched, healed, lived-in: tattoos at forty
What does a tattoo look like after twenty years of sun, work and ordinary life? We asked people who got their first ink in the 2000s.