One of the many great past exhibitions at Fremin Gallery in New York was from photographer Reva Nyari’s Punctured Ink series of women with tattoos. It featured visually stunning images in black and white exploring the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. They were created through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image, thus making each of them unique. The inspiration for this process came from her childhood memory while living in Finland where she was raised. “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland, and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”. This process gave the added dimension of mimicking tattoos by altering the physical photographic paper leaving brail-like indentations. For the artist it taps into a history of tribal scarification that signified a rite of passage, allowing the individual to transcend their past traumas. This notion grounds all of Nyari’s works.
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