Within the fingers of Argentinian tattooer Nano Ponto, lush gradients and surreal compositions emerge from layers and layers of tiny dots. Completely self-taught, Ponto by no means discovered to make use of the machines typical for a lot of artists working within the medium. He as a substitute launched into an experimental journey 13 years in the past that has since produced a vibrant catalog of designs, from a grayscale eye crying major colours or a vivid beam taking pictures from a flying saucer.
Ponto shares that whereas his course of is usually slower than that of artists who make the most of machines, his instruments and method are easy. “I simply must layer dots till I attain my desired saturation and look, which varies from pores and skin to pores and skin and the tattoo’s traits,” he says. “I exploit a number of sorts of needles to play with dot width, decision, tattooing depth, ink saturation, and some extra variables to create my designs.”
Whereas based mostly in Buenos Aires, Ponto has spent the previous few years transferring between Europe, Mexico, and the U.S. Journey has been important to his growth from the start as a result of most artists work with newer applied sciences and don’t share the identical technical approaches. “Ten years in the past, it was key for me to begin touring to fulfill different handpoked tattoo artists to share expertise and data, as there was nobody in Argentina I may do that with,” he provides.
Ponto’s newest travels have introduced him to Brooklyn, the place he’s a visitor resident this month at Atelier Eva. Discover extra about his availability and daring designs on Instagram.
