Scrolling through her Instagram, it’s easy to see that nature has long been an inspiration for Kit. Her earlier work began with illustrations, but she soon found a better method to showcase the beauty and asymmetry of Mother Earth. Kit creates her flora tattoos by dipping leaves and flowers in tattoo stencil ink and then pressing them to the body. They leave a true and imperfect replication on the skin, which she uses as a guide to creating her work.
“They’re like botanical fingerprints on the bodies of other brave nature lovers,” Kit told Illusion. She embraces the life and death of florals in her aesthetic, with an organic process that highlights the decay of the plants through the use of colors and negative space.
By t. sydney bergeron mikus
