Here, you can find articles focused on the tattoo craft itself — its history, technologies, styles, and the artists who have shaped its development. It covers how tattooing is done, how it has changed over time, and how different approaches to line, colour, and composition have emerged and spread. This section examines the structure of tattooing: the tools, methods, and references that define the medium.
A tattoo is ink trapped in the second layer of the skin. Everything else exists to get the ink to that layer and keep it there. The process is mechanical (a needle punctures the skin and deposits pigment), biological (the body reacts to the wound and to the foreign material), and a negotiation between the ink’s desire to stay put and the body’s slow, patient effort to remove it.