Meditation is an inner work practice, in which a person sits or lies peacefully and calmly attempts to clear their mind. Meditators will sometimes chant a phrase aloud or in their minds, or focus on a particular breathing style. By focusing the mind on breathing or chanting, meditators can clear their minds of distracting thoughts […]
Daria Rei is a Berlin-based artist who creates black ink tattoos in a style that is unique to her. The style of her tattoo designs is a mixture of contemporary illustrations and Ukiyo-e, an artistic style that has existed in Japan for centuries. Ukiyo-e means “pictures of the floating world” which means that the scene […]
Brazilian street artist José Flavio Audi is mad about mandalas and other esoteric and spiritual designs. He uses mandalas, lotus flowers, jewels and sacred geometry throughout his art, including in his tattoo designs. Audi favours intricate, delicate patterns that are very flowing and organic in nature. His petals seem as soft as real flower petals, […]
Florin Zaharia works out of his tattoo studio in Romania, Zaharia tattoo studio, where he creates tattoos in a wide variety of styles, including realistic and geometric styles. In this video, we see him creating a geometric dotwork tattoo. He first tattoos crisp, beautifully clean outlines and then fills the shapes with dots to create […]
Mikhail Kolesnikov, aka Mike Amanita, is a tattoo artist from St Petersburg, Russia, who specializes in black ink esoteric tattoos. Featuring mandalas, sacred geometry, optical illusions and elements from nature, Amanita manages to express the ideal that there is more to the world than meets the eye. Amanita is a master of visual textures and […]