Bin Chicken Wrap up 🥳 // Brisbane Tattoo Artist blogs

Thank you for all who had eyes on my recent Ibis merch, it's related fundraising, those whom purchased, supported and showed awareness throughout. For those in the know and those not, this was a reintroduction of a past popular merch item that coincided with a fundraiser for my surviving sister.

We have now reached a healthy conclusion to the chook. I appreciate everyone's enthusiasm over this Ibis merch since it first dropped during Covid to it's recent resurrection. Understandably, the world is fucked right now, so I understand I put pressure on a fundraiser and merchline at a time in which folks are spread thin, so all who were like 'you should print them again! I'll buy one!' Respectfully didn't, which is fair.

The most these sold were actually in real life, via me actually showing people physically. Not through their phone or socials, rather through my test prints meeting their curiosity. In saying that, these are folks who don't necessarily have social media or ever check my webstore (or any webstore), they just saw my test prints in real life, asked their options and bought it right there & then, the most popular being black Tote bags

In saying that, this was a great execution in finishing a long slept on ambition & task, then becoming a great experiment on the benefits of just putting yourself out there with your crafts. Absent of phones and present with the real example of the product, which really re invigorated a need in me to do markets and pop up stall events in the future once circumstance allows

Although I've written a fair bit here, I don't have too much really to say that I won't be saying in my near future, upcoming blogposts. However, I do need to share a sentiment I find truer & truer the more I reflect on it

Is anyone reading this a Suicide Silence fan or Garza podcast enjoyer? Garza from the band Suicide Silence has had this long running podcast I never miss an episode of. Throughout he always circles back to telling your own story, not allowing others to tell it on your behalf, because they always fuck it up.

My whole life was ripped apart over a few years there, a few years ago. Since then, my rejection sensitivity was in overdrive. Over the years, I tended to feel the most hurt when I was projected upon in cruel circumstance when the timing was especially sensitive. There's nothing I can do about people who only keep me in their life under fair weather circumstance or as a point of manipulation

However, everyday I can tell my own story, speak my truth. Because if I don't, I give the advantage to polarising situations that may distort my truth.

These blogposts at the very least, give me an access to a stream of consciousness where I can have a cathartic exercise of telling my truth, the whole way as I go. If I'm going to be perceived, the actual truth and everything is here for people to absorb. My actual truth and life as it goes by is documented, by me, here in these blogposts

Anyhoo ✨ I got a LOT of praise the other day from people seeing a bunch of my Anatomy pencil studies, thank you!! I've written enough about all that in prior blogposts than I ever care to write about again on the matter, but I always appreciate people making the effort to tell me they think something I worked hard on is cool. It always means the world, thank you :)

To touch on tattooing for a couple of paragraphs, I think it's pretty clear at this point, anyone who holds a head-in-the-sand outlook on the Tattoo Industry's current state is that of pure ignorance. Tattooing and luxury expenses are on a razors edge, life's expensive & uncertain, small businesses without a thriving niche or longstanding clientele/customer base are struggling with an inconsistent market

I thoroughly enjoy seeing other friends, colleagues & peers thriving despite the current climate's adversities. If you're in business for yourself or working as a sole trader, whether you are busy or on the verge of struggling, I want to see everyone win. I wish the best for those who don't have to worry about business being slow and I stand with those who need a break. We all gotta do what we can to survive, I know myself I need to be more stoic every day in my approach

If anyone reading this is considering booking with me for a tattoo in mind, hit me up! I'm currently booking May & onwards, however I can get you in asap for a consult so we can get what you're after started asap from May and onwards

I'll now close on a peek into my future and a recap on my merch venture;

When I first stumbled into making my art digital as the tattooing world turned that way, I also then stumbled into my first rounds of making merch to sell that was conceived digitally. I did briefly study Graphic Design in Uni, however I would say only until recently have I truly had a full circle understanding & realisation of my role incorporating the fundamentals of graphic design, it's principles and how I needed those incorporated as standard within my results.

This has resulted in me not only needing to reclaim designs I donated to institutions I no longer associate with, but also re-introduce these concepts as both a spiritual victory for myself, and a practice in standards for what I want my Artisan crafts to represent

I'm still not all the way there, but I feel super accomplished now I'm well over the halfway point and journey of reclaiming my art and process, and I truly appreciate everyones support along the way.

I've got some results of my artistic exercises to share in the near coming future, of which I'll accompany with blogs to go into detail & give everything their lore

For the meantime this particular blogpost is a touching of base, an update on things, a wrap up of the Ibis (it's now on my webstore indefinitely for anyone whom missed the pre orders) and a 'until next time'

Thanks for stopping by

Huge appreciation to you

Cheers 🫶🏻