I had been drawing for a long time, so I felt bored and had a thirst for new things. I had always loved getting tattoos, I liked the feeling of relief when the needle touches the body. I learned tattooing from one of my friends, the hand-poke tattoo artist NAME. I started my career as a tattoo artist in 2018. This doesn’t fit with the ‘high-speed-wheels-like’ contemporary society. I think I’m a very loose person, slowly doing everything by hand. I try to balance the level of affection I put into each of the things I do. My name is Ezi Woo I’m an artist, a tattooist, and a student. As if they were ice, the thread of a spider’s web, or actual powder. As if they would fade, melt, or disappear in the wind. However, her tattoos, her sculptures, and the clothes she knits seem fragile, delicate, and ephemeral. Ink, resin, thread… the materials with which Ezi creates her works are so resistant that they can last forever. Just as our freckles, our wrinkles, our stretch marks, or any wrongly named “imperfections” defy the standard canons of beauty, so too do these powder tattoos seek to be a form of subversion that makes our body special, more our own. Her mostly abstract tattoo designs are so organic and fluid that they seem to have spontaneously emerged from the skin. Powder Tattoo ( is the alias of Seoul-born, Tokyo-based tattoo artist and visual artist Ezi Woo.
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