(Abridged version published in The Conversation 03/07/2019) The Immigration Museum’s new exhibit, Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks, explores the contemporary form of Polynesia’s Tatau alongside the tattoo tradition of Japanese irezumi.
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(Guest Article) Tattooing Timor - written and researched by the Dili Collective
(Things & Ink, issue 10) "Tattooing is conducted during the vigil. Beside the body the near family sing the deceased's history in a rhythm made of tears.”
Initiation: An Ancient Ritual in a Modern World—Samoan Tatau.
(Things & Ink, issue 8. Republished in INKED, issue 27) ‘The first hit, your mind is full of so many thoughts; mostly you’re thinking, “Shit, what have I done; what am I doing; I can’t do this”.