My name is Sophie (they/them)

I’m a tattoo and visual artist currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area where I was born and raised.  I can be found on instagram under the handle @meta____morphosis.

My drawings are responsive to place, moment and season. They come from a practice of listening to textural languages and material stories through close noticing and tactile play.

Through tattooing, I reflect on the body as a site of both transformation and integration, an open whole. By inscribing images from the animate textural world in flesh, the body wears the traces of its openness, the way it is made through exchange with environment and experience.

I see tattooing as a container in which to hone intuition, enact bodily autonomy, and feel into the magic of slow, deliberate transformation. I do my best to hold this container with an attentiveness to the power implicit in the exchange, the specificity of the client’s experience and identities, and a commitment to providing a safe, comfortable, and consent forward tattoo experience.

I’m in my third year of full time tattooing, and constantly refining my technique. I am “community taught,” and indebted to the knowledge and generosity of many skilled artists. While I feel confident in my skills and knowledge, I want my clients to be aware that I do not have years of healed photographs of my work to show. I find that I work best with clients who are process oriented, curious, and open to collaboration.

When I’m not tattooing or drawing, I enjoy walking in the intertidal zone, speaking to rocks, knitting, reading, dancing, cooking, and swimming in bodies of water.

Thanks for being here and for your interest in my work!