I'm originally from Moscow and moved to the United States in 2022. I came to tattooing from fine art — that's where my style comes from, built over years and consistent across everything I do. My paintings were exhibited at the Erarta Museum in St. Petersburg, the largest private museum of contemporary art in Russia.
Alongside art, I studied pharmaceutical sciences. It might seem far from tattooing, but it gave me patience, precision, and a real understanding of the body — how it's built, how it moves, how it changes over time. That understanding is the foundation of how I design.
For me, a tattoo is a special form of art that lives only on skin. A painting has a frame; a tattoo doesn't, so it has to live and move with the body. My style blends micro-realism with geometry and symbolism: the realism brings the detail, the geometry creates rhythm and space so the work stays readable, and the symbolism makes each piece personal. Nothing is repeated from one person to the next.
What moves me most is the story behind each piece. People rarely come just for an image — there's almost always something behind it, and I try to understand what it really means to the person who'll wear it. The design starts well before the session: I ask for photos of the area in advance, then build the piece for that body specifically — the muscle, the curves, the way it moves — so it flows with the body and still reads clearly years down the line.
I've spent years developing my own approach to linework — controlling depth, pressure and speed, and adjusting to different skin types — because fine lines can look perfect the day they're done and lose their structure over time. My work is built to heal clean and hold up.
My work has been featured across tattoo publications worldwide. I've earned first-place awards for my black-and-grey work, and I'm regularly invited to judge at conventions.