The Reason I tattoo

  The Reason I tattoo... Being a tattoo artist isn’t just a job for me—it’s the way I speak to the world without ever saying a word. Every design I ink is a collaboration, a story etched in skin, and there’s something deeply powerful about turning someone’s memories, dreams, or pain into permanent art. I love that I get to blend creativity with human connection; it’s intimate, raw, and endlessly inspiring. I’m doing this because I believe art should live and breathe, and on skin, it does just that—it moves, ages, and becomes part of a person’s identity. That’s magic to me. How it started She never meant to become a tattoo artist. At least, not at first. Growing up in a quiet town with more cows than people, Jo was the girl always drawing in the margins of her notebooks—faces, flowers, fantasy creatures. Her mother said it was a waste of time, and her teachers urged her to “focus on real subjects.” But art was the only thing that made sense to her, the only thing that made the worl...