“Ink and Intention: How Adriaan Machete is Reimagining Tattoos as Modern Ritual”
About one in three Americans now sport at least one tattoo. Millennials? Nearly half are inked. Once the territory of outlaws, bikers, and angsty misfits, tattoos are now brunch-table conversation and boardroom-visible. The $1.6 billion U.S. tattoo industry is booming, with women slightly outnumbering men in the client chair. What used to be an act…