Tattooing forms the second layer of SatNam’s creativity. Where graffiti was fast and fleeting—painted in minutes or hours, and lasting anywhere from days to years before being erased by cleaners, sun, rain, or time—tattooing offers a different kind of permanence. A large tattoo might take 12 to 20 hours to complete, stretched across a year or two of sessions, and yet it remains only as long as the person carries it through life. It is more enduring than graffiti, but still bound by temporality.
In graffiti, creation followed only personal vision. In tattooing, there is collaboration. The artwork arises between artist and person, shaped by their stories, their choices of placement, and the length and intensity of the sessions. SatNam listens closely, sensing what is needed, and then works with precision and urgency to bring it into form.
Tattooing moves SatNam from an underground practice into one that is shared. It is no longer about taking public space, but about giving something back—marking the body with meaning, offering design and guidance, and helping people carry symbols that resonate deeply. While most tattoos remain hidden beneath clothing, they live as intimate transformations: not just pictures on skin, but scars, marks, thresholds.
For SatNam, tattooing is both surface and depth. It is not only about beauty but about process, about the physical and psychological passage of going through pain, ink, and ritual. A tattoo session becomes a mirror of the inner cosmos, guiding people past fear, sorrow, and joy into new versions of themselves.
What emerges is more than an image—it is a transformation that connects inner and outer worlds, a symbol lived and carried, a step in one’s becoming.