Blooming Ink is a part of my ongoing portrait series "Ink Stories", which explores women’s life stories and sexuality through their tattoos. This image portraits Charlotte, in BLOOMING INK, wearing a custom hand-made floral crown. She had been dealing with extreme shyness and social anxiety her entire life, causing her to withdraw and keep mostly to herself. Fascinated by the beauty of tattoos, she had the idea of covering her entire body
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Blooming Ink is a part of my ongoing portrait series "Ink Stories", which explores women’s life stories and sexuality through their tattoos. This image portraits Charlotte, in BLOOMING INK, wearing a custom hand-made floral crown. She had been dealing with extreme shyness and social anxiety her entire life, causing her to withdraw and keep mostly to herself. Fascinated by the beauty of tattoos, she had the idea of covering her entire body in ink. Her bodysuit is a complete piece of art; designed by one artist to cover her whole body in intricate patterns, executed in about a year of hard-core needling and pain.
Her tattoos changed her life. Charlotte says that through the drawings on her body, she became the person she was always meant to be; an outspoken, artistic, and outgoing young woman. As her skin changed, so did her personality, and her life. Through her tattoos, she bloomed into existence and became the exuberant flower she was always meant to be.
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