Chou Healing Logo

I met Nick, one of the founding artists of Indigenous Tattoo https://www.indigenous-tattoo.com,

a tattoo studio in Bayonne, in the Basque Country in South West France after having spent several years trying to find “the” artist who could design “the” first tattoo I had been dreaming of for ages:

a hedgehog, in a Marquesan way.  

It was my very first encounter and my first experience within the world of hand-poke tattoos. Stick-and-poke (aka hand-poke) is a method of tattooing where the artist, Nick, doesn't use a tattoo gun, but repeatedly dips a needle in ink and then inserts it in the skin to form designs through a series of small dots. Tattooing has ancient roots across the globe. It makes a huge difference in terms of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual experience.

My first tattoo sits on my right shoulder, it symbolises firmly enjoying the present and always being ready to thrive. My second one has been created as a tribute to my never-born twin sister and sits at the back of my left ankle, kindly but surely grounding me. This second one is the one I chose to become my logo for Chou Healing.

Nick and I created it as a life tree, in order to connect me with Earth energy, to realign me not only with my lineage such as a family tree would do, but also with the cycle of Life, of the seasons as we can see on one specific Tarot car named ‘the Wheel of Fortune’. It’s about the ups and downs we go through in life, how we grow thanks to them. It was very important to me that we could establish a connection between the two tattoos, using the same language, the Marquesan symbols.

The Marquesan Cross Peka ‘enana represents eternity in a sacred way, the cycles of eternity from life to death and from death to life, the soul, the ancestor -according to the book called Te Patutiki written by Teiki Huukena- and also symbolises the balance between elements and harmony -after PolynesianTattoo.com-. This cross is very similar to the Basque Cross which symbolises the Solar system and the four elements such as Air, Fire, Water and Earth -from Respyrénées website-.

The ‘Azulado’ blue color for the logo has been chosen to relate to the deep clearing, cleaning and cleansing Water Energy brings, allowing a wound to heal in a deeper and healthier way.