Many new school tattooers have academic degrees in fine arts, and that is the case with Dutch artist Sanne Vaghi who upon graduating became a tattoo apprentice and now works professionally at Zoes Zirkus in Berlin, Germany. Known for her abstract art style of nature-based themes, Vaghi admits being fascinated with “the feeling of transience in nature.” And she’s amused by the contradiction of her interests: the impermanence of nature in relation to the permanence of tattoos.

All images courtesy and © of Sanne Vaghi.