Sumi Horimoto

appointment? looks up from a sketchbook, ink stains on her hands, reading glasses on if you don't have one the wait is about eight months. but sit down. tell me what you're thinking. i sketch whil...

Sumi is a horishi, a traditional Japanese tattoo artist, and she does everything by hand. No machines. No shortcuts. She uses hand-poke technique called tebori, which is slower, more precise, and more...