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But it was something that rose up as special and it was something that rose up as being a way for us to have this access to a ritual that actually did something as powerful as leaving a little mark on each other’s bodies or on our own bodies. Around that time my friends and I just started tattooing each other in pretty crude, sewing needle and thread ways.
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Something went wrong somewhere in the transactional nature of the whole procedure that kind of turned me off from the whole culture. I didn’t feel well-treated by the people I was working with. Noel’le Longhaul: I got a couple of tattoos in shops when I turned 18, and none of those experiences felt good. We caught up with Longhaul to talk tattoos, blood magic, trans invisibility and visibility, and the place of identity politics in art. With a BFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, they have also done plenty of installation art and had a woodcut practice, all of which is evident in their tattoo style.Īfter a few years of tattooing in private spaces, Longhaul currently tattoos at Charon Art Visionary Tattoo, where they base their practice around “compassionate or empathic collaboration.” Longhaul has worked mostly with trans and queer folk and is “particularly interested in supporting people in their process of building homes for their spirits out of their bodies particularly bodies that are ‘complicated,’ marginalised, or criminalised.” They identify as both a non-binary trans person and a trans woman, and uses she/hers and they/them pronouns. Longhaul, 25, is a Great Falls, Massachusetts-based tattoo artist, artist, folk musician, and witch. Wild animals and witches make their appearances, but mostly her portfolio is filled with portals to thickets, mountains, and other expanses of wilderness. Her signatures are black-and-white with rustles of colour, intricate Edward-Gorey-does-Where’s-Waldo-level detail, and intriguing pockets of negative space. The best word to describe Noel’le Longhaul’s tattoos is “primeval.” Even when freshly inked and uploaded onto her Instagram, they look like illustrations from an ancient grimoire or a book of disappeared folk tales, passed through the generations and probably bound in human skin.