Sigillo Sacro means “a sacred seal” in Italian and has always been the name of my tattoo practice, specifically. However, I’m at a point where I’m attempting to re-build the world that Sigillo Sacro existed within. For a long time that was the Ranch, but before then there was a context, too, and now there is a new one. I tattoo now from shops, I spend more time on concrete than in the garden, and I am once again recognizing the sacred nature within all of our ecosystems — even those of our own construction. I live once again amongst enormous churches and missions and those stories are all worthy of being told, too: those of us who’ve cast off the oft oppressive rigor of Catholicism, especially as a colonial agent, the disincarnate that stalk from house walls and hover over the lakes at Fairmount. I cannot forget the names of my friends, the plants and animals and minerals that held my body for so long, but I no longer live amongst them and it feels that this practice is poised to integrate the knowledge we gained amongst ancient sand with that we’re gaining as we re-assimilate into the urban environment that we were raised in. And I don’t know the name of this world through the eyes I now have, nor do I know exactly how all of the aspects of what has previously been dubbed “Sigillo Sacro” fit within it. But I hope that moving forward I am able to build the kind of cohesive context that Sigillo Sacro had at the Ranch, but new. I hope to keep performing, I hope to delve more into music-making, I’m honing my capacity for the creation of images and sacred items using the materials that are available to me here. And I still hope to rebuild the sacred context around tattooing even if I cannot necessarily hold such sanctimonious ceremonies as I could for folks at the Ranch. I guess all of this is just a rambling kind of conceptual update, but also: there are so many doors that seem to be near-opening. And some of you have been sticking this out with me for a very, very long time. So what do you hope to see? More writing? Certain themes explored? If you were to get a tattoo, even just hypothetically, what are your ideas for building in ritual in an environment that isn’t necessarily built for it? And finally, I need a new name, I think. I’m not necessarily looking for you to give me name ideas, but I suppose your feedback and ideas may help me to have the kind of exterior perspective needed to rename the practice in its new form!